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horseshoen.   /ˈhɔːsʃuː/Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: horse n., shoe n. Etymology: In α. forms < horse n. + shoe n. In β. forms < the genitive of horse n. + shoe n. 1. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > horseshoe the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > charm or amulet > against witchcraft the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > charm or amulet > for luck > specific a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 255 Foure hors schoon. 1485 in W. H. Stevenson (1885) III. 245 Item for a hors shoo..jd. ob. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie (1895) II. 39 Makdonald..with horschone he schod his wife, and set thame on her solis with nailis. 1602 W. Shakespeare iii. v. 112 To be throwne into Thames like a horshoo. 1665 R. Boyle vi. ix. sig. Oo5 The common people of this Country have a Tradition, that 'tis a lucky thing to find a Horse-shoe. 1751 Universal Mag. in W. Hone (1827) 2 1457 No horseshoe nor magpye shall baffle our skill. 1824 W. Scott II. xi. 244 Your wife's a witch, man; you should nail a horse-shoe on your chamber-door. 1851 D. Wilson iii. iv. 437 About this place most of the ancient horse-shoes have been discovered. One..is described..as consisting of a solid piece of iron. 1895 F. T. Elworthy vi. 217 Here in Somerset, horseshoes are nailed on stable doors, hung up to the ceilings above the horses, or fastened to the walls of the cow-house, ‘to keep off the pixies’. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > quoits > [noun] 1825 J. T. Brockett 1846 W. E. Brockett (ed. 3) I. 228 The game of quoits is called ‘horse-shoes’ in the North because sometimes played with horse-shoes. 2. Applied to things shaped like a horseshoe, or a circular arc larger than a semi-circle. the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > horseshoe 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan i. xxiv. 73 The bataylle ought to be then ordred and made in manere of a hors-shoo. 1725 D. Defoe i. 142 The River making a Kind of double Horse shoe. 1770 G. Washington (1889) II. 298 The Ohio running round it in the nature of a horse~shoe. 1799 R. Kirwan 337 When the dip forms what is called a horse-shoe, descending from one mountain or hill, and ascending on the opposite. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers I. xx. 507 The horseshoe which lies between the wooded hills of Maidenhead, Wycombe and Marlow. society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > other outworks 1698 tr. F. Froger 108 Three pieces of Fortification call'd Horse-Shooes. 1704 J. Harris I Horse-Shooe, in Fortification, is a Work sometimes of a round, and sometimes of an Oval Figure, raised in the Ditch of a Marshy Place, or in low Grounds, and border'd with a Parapet. 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier 312 That Fortress has no other Out~works, besides a Horse-shooe next the Port, and a little Cover'd-way. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > keel and kelson > keel > forward extremity > strap attaching 1850 J. Greenwood 125 Horse-shoes, large straps of iron or copper shaped like a horse-shoe and let into the stem and gripe on opposite sides, through which they are bolted together to secure the gripe to the stem. 1875 E. H. Knight Horseshoe..2. A movable support for varying the gearing and the velocity of the screw which moves the slide. the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > bend > semicircular bend 1795 in (1963) 38 183 In the bend, or horse shoe..is a neck of land about 4 or 500 yards wide. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ (1924) I. 237 A brook that never goes straight for a minute..sometimes fetching a horse-shoe three quarters of a mile around. the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > mathematical or symbolic logic > Polish school of symbolic logic > symbols 1926 H. M. Sheffer in 8 231 The authors (1)..inform us, ‘unofficially’, that they are privately convinced that ‘either p is false or q is true’ (2) means ‘p implies q’; and they henceforth regard ‘p horseshoe q’ as meaning ‘p implies q’. 1952 F. B. Fitch 15 The horseshoe symbol can be read as ‘implies’, but a more accurate reading is the if-then reading. 1954 I. M. Copi ii. 17 We introduce the new symbol ‘⊃’, called a horseshoe, to represent the partial meaning common to all conditional statements. 1959 30 Apr. 757/2 He spent another [term] worrying about the ordinary use of the words ‘if-then’ whereas logicians had assured us that nothing but the ‘horse-shoe’ was worth talking about. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens iv. xxxi. 490 The thirde kinde is called..in English Horse shoe. 1597 J. Gerard ii. 1057 Horse shooe commeth vp in certaine vntilled and sunny places of Italy and Languedock. 1712 J. Petiver in (Royal Soc.) 27 387 Horse-shoes..The Pods of this elegant Plant resemble a Half moon, or Horse-shoe. 4. Zoology. the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Mactridae > member of 1775 B. Romans 302 A crab..called in the southern province a king crab, and to the northward a horse-shoe. 1850 N. Hawthorne xv. 215 She seized a live horseshoe by the tail. Compounds1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville 26 Great Stairs made Horse-shoo-Fashion. 1837 VII. 23/2 Nose..bordered by a wide crest of a horseshoe shape. 1849 J. H. Parker ii. 64 A few Norman arches are of the horse-shoe form. 1770 Duchess of Northumberland 10 June (1926) 139 In the midst of the Room were two Horse Shoe Tables the ends of which pretty near touching form'd a Kind of Oval. 1796 W. Combe II. 71. The horse-shoe bend that begins at Mortlake. 1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith I. 131 A horse-shoe arch has its centre above the spring. 1857 C. M. Yonge Let. 1 Oct. in C. R. Coleridge (1903) viii. 212 A great horse-shoe table, holding 116 people. 1873 W. A. Hayne in H. B. Tristram 375 Arches distinctly horse-shoe. 1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Aug. 192/2 The water cuts the alluvial banks of the ‘lower’ river into deep horseshoe curves. 1884 22 Nov. 538/1 The delegates took their places to the right and left of him at a horseshoe table. 1893 T. B. Foreman 64 Through the usual horse-shoe door, we enter an open court. 1926 F. M. Ford i. i. 17 The gentlemen with sergeant-majors' horse-shoe moustaches. 1950 G. Brenan ii. 42 The double horseshoe arches, striped buff-white and brick-rose, arrest one by their strangeness and novelty. 1777 T. Pennant (ed. 4, octavo) IV. vi. 57 A horse-shoe-shaped mark of deep purple. 1892 E. Reeves 276 A small room entered by a horse-shoe-like arch. 1895 4 Sept. 3/3 The tunnel..is 21 ft. high and 19 ft. broad, and is horseshoe-shaped. C4. Special combinations: 1875 E. H. Knight Horseshoe-anvil, one which corresponds in shape and size to the hoof of a horse, and has shanks which permit its adjustment in the socket-hole of the anvil, in either a natural or a reversed position. the world > animals > mammals > order Chiroptera or bat > [noun] > suborder Microchiroptera > miscellaneous members of 1774 O. Goldsmith IV. 140 The Horse shoe Bat, with an odd protuberance round its upper lip, somewhat in the form of an horse-shoe. 1847 W. B. Carpenter I. §169 Two species are known in England under the name of the Greater and Lesser Horse-shoe Bats. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > keel and kelson > keel > forward extremity > strap attaching 1875 E. H. Knight Horseshoe-clamp (Ship-building), an iron strap by which the gripe and fore-foot are attached. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus > member of 1865 F. Parkman Champlain iii, in 231 The horseshoe-crab awakened his especial curiosity. 1849 7 2393 The Egyptian goose is the ‘horse-shoe goose’. 1728 E. Chambers at Horse Shoe Horse Shoe Head, a Disease in Infants, wherein the Sutures of the Head are too open, or too great a Vacuity is left between them. 1887 Horse-shoe kidney..a variety of the kidneys in man in which they are connected by their lower ends, so as to make one horseshoe-shaped organ. the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > magnetic devices or materials > [noun] > a magnet > of specific shape 1785 G. Adams (ed. 2) 419 To touch horseshoe magnets. 1822 T. Webster (new ed.) I. 409 A magnet, bent so that the two ends almost meet, is called a horse-shoe magnet. 1832 (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. Magnetism v. 53 These horse-shoe magnets..may be rendered magnetic by the same process as a straight bar. 1871 J. Tyndall (1879) II. xvi. 441 He bent it into a continuous ring, which..he caused to rotate rapidly close to the poles of a horse-shoe magnet. 1930 Feb. 101/1 You will also need a bottle of black India ink..and a large horseshoe magnet. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > horseshoe > nail or stud 1415–16 Et in furfure et horsescho~nayle, xixs. xjd. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange II. 97 Six parts of iron in small fragments, as points of horse-shoe nails. 1875 E. H. Knight Horse~shoe Nail-machine, one in which rods of iron are shaped into nails for the purpose stated. 1888 13 401 A patent for the manufacture of horse-shoe nails. 1894 22 Jan. 7/4 Rolled horseshoe nail rods (charcoal) are priced at £16 10s. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants 1640 J. Parkinson 1091 Many codded Horse shooe Vetch. 1640 J. Parkinson 1091 The greater Horse shooe Vetch. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Botanicum in Horshoe Vetch, Ferrum Equinum. 1760 J. Lee Table i. 253 Hippocrepis, Horseshoe Vetch. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). horseshoev. Etymology: < horseshoe n.: compare shoe v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhorseshoe. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [verb (transitive)] > make horseshoe shaped 1874 J. Fergusson (ed. 2) I. i. iv. vi. 391 A Sassanian arch..horse-shoed to the extent of one-tenth of its diameter. Derivatives the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > one who 1591 F. Sparry tr. C. de Cattan 76 Craftsmen working by yron, as horse-shooers, locke-smiths, and such like. 1888 24 Sept. 11/2 The horse-shoers wore new russet leather aprons, with blood-red horseshoe stamped in the centre. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] 1869 G. Fleming (title) Horse-Shoes and Horse-Shoeing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). <  n.a1387 v.1591 |