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Word: singlefoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...second synthetic gait, most comfortable for the rider but tiring for the horse, was the rack (singlefoot), a four-beat gait with each hoof striking the ground separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five Speeds Forward | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Hogback Mountain region, where tenant farms are rich only in ragged children, moonshine stills and Redbone hounds. The hero and his hill bride had little chance of escaping poverty. Broke, Gene Atkins was resigned to spend his $300 mustering-out pay for a stock-mule, harness, turning plow, singlefoot, geewhiz, section harrow, planter and wagon-and then sharecropping cotton on another man's land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Home for a Hero | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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