hoofbeat
English
Etymology
Noun
hoofbeat (plural hoofbeats)
- The sound of a hoof striking the ground.
- 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
- at the hoof-beats of fate