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noun
1.
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 feet (9 or 12 meters) 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.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a piece of iron shaped like a U with the ends curving inwards that is nailed to the underside of the hoof of a horse to protect the soft part of the foot from hard surfaces: commonly thought to be a token of good luck |
| 2. | an object of similar shape |
| —vb , -shoes, -shoeing, -shoed | |
| 3. | (tr) to fit with a horseshoe; shoe |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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horseshoe
U-shaped metal plate by which horses' hooves are protected from wear on hard or rough surfaces. Horseshoes apparently are a Roman invention; a mule's loss of its shoe is mentioned by the Roman poet Catullus in the 1st century BC.
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Example sentences
The restrooms were in a horseshoe-shaped blind alley.
The seifs themselves can break up and form the horseshoe-shaped dunes called barchans.
The horseshoe arrangement of the members seats within the chamber is unique in canada.
The tasters sit in clusters of three around tables arranged in horseshoe shape.
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