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.

– Horsehoe nose (Zoöl.), 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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