a U-shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
2.
something U-shaped, as a valley, river bend, or other natural feature: We picnicked in the middle of a horseshoe of trees.
3.
horseshoes, (used with a singular verb) a game in which horseshoes or other U-shaped pieces of metal, plastic, etc., are tossed at an iron stake 30 or 40 ft. (9 or 12 m) away in order to encircle it or to come closer to it than one's opponent.
–verb (used with object)
4.
to put a horseshoe or horseshoes on.
–adjective
5.
having the shape of a horseshoe; U-shaped: a horseshoe bend in the river.
A flat U-shaped metal plate fitted and nailed to the bottom of a horse's hoof for protection.
A U-shaped object similar to a horseshoe.
horseshoes(used with a sing. verb) A game in which players toss horseshoes or horseshoe-shaped metal pieces at a stake so as to encircle it or come closer to it than the other players.
tr.v.
horse·shoed, horse·shoe·ing, horse·shoes
To fit with horseshoes.
Horseshoe Beach, FL (town, FIPS 32650) Location: 29.44018 N, 83.28808 W Population (1990): 252 (306 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32648
Horseshoe Bend, AR (city, FIPS 33370) Location: 36.22331 N, 91.74095 W Population (1990): 2239 (1330 housing units) Area: 37.8 sq km (land), 3.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72512
Horseshoe Bend, ID (city, FIPS 38620) Location: 43.91302 N, 116.19460 W Population (1990): 643 (254 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83629
Horseshoe Bay, TX (CDP, FIPS 34862) Location: 30.53711 N, 98.35480 W Population (1990): 1546 (2253 housing units) Area: 60.6 sq km (land), 8.6 sq km (water)
Horseshoe Lake, AR (town, FIPS 33375) Location: 34.91334 N, 90.30703 W Population (1990): 298 (278 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Horse"shoe`\, n. 1. A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof. 2. Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab. 3. (Zo["o]l.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head (Med.), an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. --Dunglison. Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe. Horsehoe nail. See Horsenail. Horsehoe nose (Zo["o]l.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.
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