HORSESHOES

quoits, horseshoes

(noun) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

horseshoes

plural of horseshoe

Noun

horseshoes (uncountable)

The game played by throwing horseshoes toward a metal stake.

Verb

horseshoes

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of horseshoe

Source: Wiktionary


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.

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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