单词 | horseshoe |
释义 | horseshoe[ hawrs-shoo, hawrsh- ] / ˈhɔrsˌʃu, ˈhɔrʃ- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR horseshoe ON THESAURUS.COM nouna 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. something U-shaped, as a valley, river bend, or other natural feature: We picnicked in the middle of a horseshoe of trees. 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), horse·shoed, horse·shoe·ing.to put a horseshoe or horseshoes on. adjectivehaving the shape of a horseshoe; U-shaped: a horseshoe bend in the river. Origin of horseshoe1350–1400; Middle English. See horse, shoe OTHER WORDS FROM horseshoehorseshoer, nounWords nearby horseshoehorseradish tree, horse rake, horse's ass, horse sense, horseshit, horseshoe, horseshoe arch, horseshoe back, horseshoe bat, horseshoe crab, horseshoe fern Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for horseshoeBritish Dictionary definitions for horseshoehorseshoe / (ˈhɔːsˌʃuː) / nouna 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 an object of similar shape verb -shoes, -shoeing or -shoed(tr) to fit with a horseshoe; shoe Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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