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horseshoes

[hawrs-shoo, hawrsh-]

horse·shoe

[hawrs-shoo, hawrsh-] noun, verb, -shoed, -shoe·ing, adjective
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.

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Horseshoes is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
adjective
5.
having the shape of a horseshoe; U-shaped: a horseshoe bend in the river.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English. See horse, shoe

horse·sho·er, noun
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horseshoes (ˈhɔːsˌʃuːz)
 
n
(functioning as singular) a game in which the players try to throw horseshoes so that they encircle a stake in the ground some distance away

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