Horseshoe
['hɔːsʃuː;-ʃʃ-] or ['hɔrʃʃu]
Definition
(noun.) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof.
(noun.) game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes.
(verb.) equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes.
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Definition
(n.) A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
(n.) Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.
(n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.
Editor: Susanna
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a horseshoe, indicates advance in business and lucky engagements for women. To see them broken, ill fortune and sickness is portrayed. To find a horseshoe hanging on the fence, denotes that your interests will advance beyond your most sanguine expectations. To pick one up in the road, you will receive profit from a source you know not of.
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Examples
- If a close coil of wire is suspended between the poles of a strong horseshoe magnet, it will not assume any characteristic position but will remain wherever placed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Wonder was expressed over the blazing horseshoe that glowed within a pear-shaped globe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A horseshoe electromagnet is powerful enough to support heavy weights. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The lamps were partly of the horseshoe filament paper-carbon type, and partly bamboo-filament lamps, and were of an efficiency of 95 to 100 watts per 16 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- All of the plate was affected by the sun except the portion protected by the horseshoe which, because it is opaque, would not allow light to pass through and reach the plate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This horseshoe of carbonized paper seemed incapable to resist mechanical shocks and to maintain incandescence for any considerable length of time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The permanent steel magnet is used for compass needles, as the familiar horseshoe magnet, and in certain types of electric machinery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was like striking out a horseshoe complete, in a single blow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Then lay a horseshoe on the plate for good luck, and carry the plate out into the light for a second. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Each car axle had a large iron disk mounted on and revolving with it between the poles of a powerful horseshoe electromagnet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To increase the strength of the electromagnet still further, the so-called horseshoe shape is used (Fig. 214). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In this bag I have one of the boots which Straker wore, one of Fitzroy Simpson's shoes, and a cast horseshoe of Silver Blaze. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Within the last forty years nearly two hundred patents have been taken out in the United States alone for machines for making horseshoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Iron acts in a similar manner, and because of this property the blacksmith can shape his horseshoes, and the workman can make his engines and other articles of daily service to man. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Horseshoes, swords, and the heads of halberds, or bills, are often found there; one place is called the Danes' well, another the Battle flats. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- So also at this Exhibition was a finer collection of machine-made horseshoes than had ever previously been presented to the world. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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