hoove

1. archaicuncountableA disease in cattle consisting of inflammation of the rumen by gas, usually caused by eating too much green food.

   Synonyms: bloat, bloating, drum belly, meteorism, ruminal bloat, ruminal tympany, ruminal tympanitis, tympanites

present singular third person hooves · participle present hooving · participle past hooved · past hooved

1. alternativeAlternative form of hoof.

   Cows, or something bigger, hoove the ground, pick at it, shovel up the dirt around my foot.

   1988 spring, William Tester, “Darling”, in Gordon Lish, editor, The Quarterly, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 10

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   In her father’s pasture was a bull and when it stamped and hooved the ground and bellowed below the trees it was a preacher and now the Preacher was a bull.

   1950s, Eric Nixon, “The Organ Blower”, in The Window, volume 9, London: Villiers Publications, →ISSN, page 16

   They had left soft ridges where they had hooved the ground up with their snoots and baby hands.

   1956, Jesse Stuart, The Year of My Rebirth, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill BooK Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 112

   […] I didn’t find it, but came upon a cow moose blind, stinking with heat, moaning, and hooving the black peat with such blood, such fury, the woods broke open, the earth recovered her children, her silences, her poems.

   1971, John Thompson, “The Change”, in The Fiddlehead, numbers 88–91, Fredericton, N.B.: University of New Brunswick, →ISSN, page 77

   white heat red sunfired horses / tails swishing snakes / galloping / we were riders lion / headed hooving the hard ground / dust and cloud dragon and angel

   1974, Helen Howe, “nashotah summer images to my sister”, in Nashotah Review, volumes 14–15, Nashotah, Wis.: Nashotah House, →ISSN, page 101

   A spoonbill stalks its future with primaeval staggers: so, this is Grace? he wonders cutting twine from pulpy bails, the sheep congregating and snorting air that is sharp, shaking glimmers of an indolent sun from burr-bitten wool, hooving the ground.

   1991, John Kinsella, “Checking The Sheep Two Mornings After The Glad Day”, in Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, volumes 35–36, Tulsa, Okla.: University of Tulsa, →ISSN, page 34