clop

 
Pronunciation: /klɒp/

noun

[in singular]
  • a sound or series of sounds made by a horse’s hoofs on a hard surface: the plodding clop of patient draught horses

verb (clops, clopping, clopped)

[no object, with adverbial of direction]
  • (of a horse) move with a clop: the animal clopped on at a steady pace

Origin:

mid 19th century: imitative