game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes
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U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof
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equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes
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Horseshoe \Horse"shoe`\, 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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. [PJC]
{Horsehoe 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. --Dunglison.
{Horsehoe magnet}, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe.
{Horsehoe nail}. See {Horsenail}.
{Horsehoe nose} (Zo["o]l.), a bat of the genus {Rhinolophus}, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.
Troy ironmaster Henry Burden built the world's biggest hydropower waterwheel, and his mills churned out a horseshoe every second, shodding almost all the horses used by the North in the Civil War.
It is rarely possible, however, to convince green keepers and lawn lovers of this at the time of the damage. Greater horseshoe bats specialise in eating cockchafers in the spring.
The Black Hills city spent about $30,000 adding 16 horseshoe pits, lighting and other improvements at the campground where the tournament will be held, said Finance Officer Beth Benning.
Bush presented the horseshoe plaque to Gorbachev at dinner that night.
CHOOSE your bridge when you enter Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire that sits on a promontory above a large horseshoe bend in the river Severn. If you come from the left on the map, it is the Welsh bridge; from the right, the English.
The foyers, white with blue-grey marble floors, are spacious and the auditorium suggests an honest, modern response to the traditional horseshoe shape, its curved lines ensuring intimacy.
In 1750, Britain prohibited Americans from erecting any mill for rolling or slitting iron; William Pitt exclaimed, "It is forbidden to make even a nail for a horseshoe."
He was also standing by his horseshoe pit if the president had decided to come by and toss a few ringers.
A ringer, when the points of a horseshoe encircle a steel stake in a clay or sand pit, counts as 3 points.
But he said horseshoe pitching at the tournament level can be physically grueling.
So whenever a business was opened, a horseshoe was put over the door for good luck or the proprietor carried a rabbit's foot in his pocket.