horseshoe

CEFRB2

/ˈhɔːs.ʃuː/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A curved metal plate fixed to the bottom of a horse's hoof.
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noun
Extra detail
A well-developed set of triceps brachii muscles.

Examples

A horseshoe and a black cat are not good luck signs.
This is a horseshoe magnet.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

Also pronounced

/ˈhɔː.ʃuː/

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noun

Extra meanings

The U shape of a horseshoe.
The U-shaped shoe of a horse, now typically made of metal; by extension, a representation of this used to play the game horseshoes, hung as a luck charm, etc.
The symbol ⊃.

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And what has been thus affirmed of other leading commodities; the blacksmith, for example, no longer making, but buying his horseshoes, nails, nuts, and bolts;
Each player has a turn at tossing his horseshoes, one at a time, at the stob opposite him. His opponent then throws his horseshoes.
Whereas the railway heads inland to take the easier but much longer horseshoe-shaped route around the firth, the A9 directly crosses it from north to south on a bridge built in 1991.

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Each player has a turn at tossing his horseshoes, one at a time, at the stob opposite him. His opponent then throws his horseshoes.
1997, Francis Edward Abernethy, editor, Texas toys and games, page 142
The ancient Romans [...] used leather horseshoes; the Chinese made straw sandals for their mounts; and American Indians used leather moccasins, which they tied around their horses ' ankles. In days of old, people took their horses to the smithy to be shod.
1984, Leda Blumberg, The Horselover's Handbook: An Introduction to Owning, Caring For, and Riding Horses, →ISBN, page 46
If there are no missing teeth and tooth alignment is good, two opposing well-defined horseshoes are seen. If, however, your denitition is mal-aligned or is missing anterior teeth, this pattern too should be reflected in the bite mark.
2005, Stuart H. James, Jon J. Nordby (editors), Forensic science: an introduction to scientific and investigative techniques, page 88
Whereas the railway heads inland to take the easier but much longer horseshoe-shaped route around the firth, the A9 directly crosses it from north to south on a bridge built in 1991.
2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 49
The lateral head of your triceps forms the outside of the horseshoe, the long head forms the inside, the medial head lies beneath the long head, and the tendon occupies the flat space in the middle.
2004, Ellington Darden, The New High-Intensity Training, page 58

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English horsscho, from hors + scho. By su...

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The blacksmith shaped the red-hot metal into a blank— for the horse.

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noun

The blacksmith shaped the red-hot metal into a blank for the horse.