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A horse's gait, a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite simultaneously. quotations examples
A mile further along he passes us, the horse, archnecked, reined back to a swift singlefoot.
1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 69
third-person singular simple present singlefoots, present participle singlefooting, simple past and past participle singlefooted
(intransitive) To proceed by means of the singlefoot gait. examples