society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [verb (intransitive)] > put blocks on flukes of anchor
1644 H. Mainwaring 3 The ground may be soft and ozie; In such places we use to shooe the Anchor, that is, to put boords to the flooke..and make it much broader.
1769 W. Falconer To shoe an anchor, is..intended to give the anchor a stronger..hold of the bottom.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher