ˈhoof-bound, a. (n.) Farriery.
Affected with a painful dryness and contraction of the hoof; having the shoe put on too tight, causing the horse to go lame. Also n. as a name of the affection.
| 1598 Florio, Incastellare,..a horse to haue his hoofe dride vp,..to be hoofe-bound. 1610 Markham Masterp. ii. c. 382 The hoofe-bound is nothing else but a shrinking in of the whole hoofe in the vpper part thereof, making the skinne to stare aboue the hoofe, and to grow ouer the same. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Hoof, If the heel be narrow and tender, the horse will in time grow hoof-bound. |