Alive.
1830. The Spanish mode of slaughtering is so slovenly, that we generally bought our beef ‘on the hoof,’ and swam them off alongside.—N. Ames, ‘A Mariner’s Sketches,’ p. 163.
1837. The pernicious and impoverishing practice of driving off beef cattle on the hoof.—Mr. Benton of Missouri, U.S. Senate, Feb. 21: Cong. Globe, p. 208.
