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noun

Horseshoe 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, such as a U-shaped bend in a river.

3.

(Zool.) The Limulus or horsehoe crab.

4.

pl. A game in which horseshoes or horseshoe-shaped objects (usually made of metal) are thrown at either of two stakes fixed in the ground at a distance of 30 to 40 feet apart. The player stands at or near one stake and throws several the horseshoes at the other stake. Points are scored when the player throws the horseshoe so that it surrounds the stake; fewer points are scored if the horseshoe is close to but not surrounding the stake. The players take turns and the first player to achieve the target score wins; as, "almost" only counts with hand grenades or in horseshoes.

Horseshoe 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.

Horseshoe magnet, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe.

Horsehoe nail. See Horsenail.

Horseshoe nose (Zool.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Horseshoe" Quotes from Famous Books

... add 4 eggs and mix in 1-1/4 lbs. of flour. Mix 1/4 of a lb. of sugar and flour together, and lay in on the bread board. Take a small spoonful of the mixture and roll it with a broad-blade knife in the flour and sugar. When rolled to the right length lay on tin sheet in the form of a horseshoe ...

— 365 Luncheon Dishes - A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year • Anonymous

... was some three-quarters of a mile from point to point, built in a circle, or wide horseshoe, with an opening of twenty feet at the mouth of the lagoon. Pine-trees grew thickly all over, but here and there were patches of silver birch, scrub oak, and considerable colonies of wild raspberry and gooseberry bushes. The two ends of the horseshoe ...

— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... had written gayly of ladies' eyebrows, knowing as the true-hearted gentleman always knows that to-day it may be a man's turn to sit at a desk in an office, or bend over a book in college, or fashion a horseshoe at the forge, or toss flowers to some beauty at her window, and to-morrow to stand firm against a cruel church or a despotic court, a brutal snob or an ignorant public opinion—this youth, this immortal gentleman, wrote the letter which dissuaded her from the marriage, and which ...

— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis

... he lowered his eyes from the sky and looked to the gate that led into the horseshoe sweep of low buildings and back to the great, bulking hangar where ...

— The Big Tomorrow • Paul Lohrman

... parables; and whenever he was cornered he escaped on a palpable evasion. His great disciple, Paul, however, was particularly fond of arguing. His writings abound in "for" and "whereas." The argument he most affected was the circular one. He could run round a horseshoe, skip over from point to point, and run round again as nimbly as any man on record. In a famous chapter in Corinthians, for instance, he first proves the resurrection of the dead by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

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