Home › Words › S › singlefootsinglefootsinglefoot means 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.EtymologyFrom single + foot.nounA 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.e.g.“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:verbTo proceed by means of the singlefoot gait.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).