hoofprint

plural hoofprints

1. The mark of a hoof.

   In five minutes, she pointed out the tracks of at least six deer: does with rounded hoofprints, bucks with big pointy prints the length of a man’s finger, fawns with little prints.

   2008 May 3, Andy Newman, “On Staten Island, More Deer and Few Solutions”, in New York Times

   2 more examples

   Perhaps, like us, he may journey for a fortnight, and see not so much as the hoof-print of a deer; in the spring, not even a prairie-hen is to be had. Yet, to compensate him for this unlooked-for deficiency of game he will find himself beset with 'warmints' innumerable.

   1849, Francis Parkman, The California and Oregon Trail

   There was the round solid hoof of the quagga, and his near congener the dauw; and there was the neat hoofprint of the gemsbok, and the larger track of the eland; and among these Von Bloom did not fail to notice the spoor of the dreaded lion.

   1861, Mayne Reid, The bush-boys; or the history and adventures of a cape farmer and his family in the wild Karoos of Southern Africa

   Synonyms: hoofmark