According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
HORSESHOEING
Verb
horseshoeing
present participle of horseshoe
Source: Wiktionary
Horse"shoe`ing, n.
Definition: The act or employment of shoeing horses.
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 crab.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The Limulus of horsehoe crab. 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.
РHorsehoe nose (Zo̦l.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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