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Meanings of cloven-footed in English

Spanish
biungulado

Of or relating to the cloven feet of ruminants or swine.

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        Usage of cloven-footed in English
        1
        The cloven-footed animals gnaw through the icy bark on the trees.
        The blood spilt
        2
        How wretched a spectacle is a garden into which the cloven-footed beasts have entered!
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 / A Magazine ...
        3
        And the swine, though he divideth the hoof and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud.
        The Book of Household Management
        4
        I quit the woods pursued by winged and cloven-footed fiends, and ran to the house of Andy Hinchman.
        Fifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography
        5
        What possible connexion can there be between those beautiful Valenciennes, those splendid Mechlins, those exquisite Brussels points, and his cloven-footed majesty?
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
        6
        There is also a female statue, beautiful from the waist upward, but shaggy and cloven-footed below, and holding a little cloven-footed child by the hand.
        Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
        7
        'Hm,' he said, 'cloven-footed; graminivorous; needn't be afraid of you;' and he went to sleep again.
        England and the War
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