ROUGHSHOD

roughshod, heavy-handed

(adjective) unjustly domineering; “incensed at the government’s heavy-handed economic policies”; “a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition”

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious

(adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; “a barbarous crime”; “brutal beatings”; “cruel tortures”; “Stalin’s roughshod treatment of the kulaks”; “a savage slap”; “vicious kicks”

roughshod

(adjective) (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

roughshod (not comparable)

(farriery) Of a horse: having hooves shod with calks or horseshoes that have projecting nails to prevent slipping.

(by extension) Brutal or domineering.

Source: Wiktionary

Rough"shod, a.

Definition: Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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