Crossword clues for horseshoe
horseshoe
- It may be around a stake
- U
- Nailed to underside of horse's hoof
- Kind of crab or clam
- Lucky charm
- Charm of heroin's heightened by weed
- House here's so dilapidated - is that lucky?
- Last pair of gardeners in gardens attack the weeds? That’s a lucky thing
- Hoof protector
- He loves her SS pants and footwear
- Drug's 8? That's lucky for some!
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horseshoe \Horse"shoe`\, n.
A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
Anything shaped like a horsehoe, such as a U-shaped bend in a river.
(Zo["o]l.) The Limulus or horsehoe crab.
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pl. A game in which horseshoes or horseshoe-shaped objects (usually made of metal) are thrown at either of two stakes fixed in the ground at a distance of 30 to 40 feet apart. The player stands at or near one stake and throws several the horseshoes at the other stake. Points are scored when the player throws the horseshoe so that it surrounds the stake; fewer points are scored if the horseshoe is close to but not surrounding the stake. The players take turns and the first player to achieve the target score wins; as, ``almost'' only counts with hand grenades or in horseshoes.
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 (Zo["o]l.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (early 13c. as a proper name), from horse (n.) + shoe (n.). Horseshoes as another name for the game of quoits, attested by 1822.\n\nHORSE-SHOES, the game of coits, or quoits
--because sometimes actually played with horse-shoes.
[John Trotter Brockett, "A Glossary of North Country Words," 1829]
\nThe belief that finding a horseshoe by chance is lucky is attested from late 14c., and the practice of nailing one above a doorway to prevent a witch entering therein was common in London down to c.1800. Of a type of bend in a river, 1770, American English. As a type of crab, from 1775.Wiktionary
n. 1 The U-shaped metallic shoe of a horse. 2 A U-shaped piece of metal used to play the game horseshoes. 3 The U shape of a horseshoe. 4 (context bodybuilding slang English) A well-developed set of triceps brachii muscles. 5 (context logic English) The symbol '''⊃'''. vb. To apply horseshoes to a horse.
WordNet
n. game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes
U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof [syn: shoe]
v. equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A horseshoe is a fabricated product, normally made of metal, although sometimes made partially or wholly of modern synthetic materials, designed to protect a horse's hoof from wear. Shoes are attached on the palmar surface of the hooves, usually nailed through the insensitive hoof wall that is anatomically akin to the human toenail, although much larger and thicker. However, there are many cases where shoes are glued.
The fitting of horseshoes is a professional occupation, conducted by a farrier, who specializes in the preparation of feet, assessing potential lameness issues, and fitting appropriate shoes, including remedial features where required. In some countries, such as the United Kingdom, horseshoeing is legally restricted to only people with specific qualifications and experience. In others, such as the United States, where professional licensing is not legally required, professional organizations provide certification programs that publicly identify qualified individuals.
Horseshoes are available in a wide variety of materials and styles, developed for different types of horse and for the work they do. The most common materials are steel and aluminium, but specialized shoes may include use of rubber, plastic, magnesium, titanium, or copper. Steel tends to be preferred in sports where a strong, long-wearing shoe is needed, such as polo, eventing, show jumping, and western riding events. Aluminium shoes are lighter, making them common in horse racing, where a lighter shoe is desired; and often facilitate certain types of movement, and so are favored in the discipline of dressage. Some horseshoes have " caulkins", "caulks", or "calks": protrusions at the toe or heels of the shoe, or both, to provide additional traction.
When kept as a talisman, a horseshoe is said to bring good luck. Some believe that to hang it with the ends pointing upwards is good luck as it acts as a storage container of sorts for any good luck that happens to be floating by, whereas to hang it with the ends pointing down, is bad luck as all the good luck will fall out. Others believe that the horseshoe should be hung the other way (with the ends pointing down), as it will then release its luck to the people around it. A stylized variation of the horseshoe is used for a popular throwing game, horseshoes.
Horseshoe (⊃, \supset in TeX) is a symbol used to represent:
- Material conditional in propositional logic
- Superset in set theory
It was used by Russell and Whitehead in Principia Mathematica. In Unicode the symbol is encoded .
Horseshoe is a shoe for horses, and by analogy is applied to many things with a similar shape.
Horseshoe or Horse Shoe may also refer to:
- Horseshoes, a tossing game played with a horseshoe
- Horseshoes (film), 1923, starring Oliver Hardy
- Horseshoes (song), 2000, by Adam Gregory
- Horseshoe (symbol), a logical connective meaning material conditional in propositional logic
- Horseshoe sandwich, an open-faced sandwich found regionally in the Midwest
- Horseshoe map, in chaos theory
- Horseshoe theory, in political science
- Horseshoe crab, a marine arthropod
- Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus
- Horseshoe route, a WWII air route
- Horseshoe run, a 19th-century steamship route
The term also refers to locations, structures and geographical features:
- Horseshoe, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
- Horse Shoe, North Carolina, a town near a lake with the same name, in North Carolina
- Horseshoe, Western Australia, an abandoned town in Western Australia
- Golden Horseshoe, colloquial term for urban area of Lake Ontario
- Horseshoe Canyon (Utah), USA
- Horseshoe Canyon (Alberta), Canada
- Binion's Horseshoe, a casino
- Horseshoe Casino Bossier City, a casino
- Horseshoe Casino Hammond, a casino
- Horseshoe Casino Tunica, a casino
- Horseshoe Southern Indiana, formerly Caesars Indiana
- Horseshoe Resort, or Horseshoe Valley Ski Club, a ski resort in southern Ontario
- Horseshoe Tavern, a bar in downtown Toronto
- Ohio Stadium, the football stadium for The Ohio State University, aka: The Horseshoe
- Horseshoe, Jersey City, the second ward of Jersey City, named for its gerrymandered shape
- University of South Carolina, the center of the Columbia campus
Usage examples of "horseshoe".
Behind her she heard the sharp clack of horseshoes against stone and knew that Bounder was on his way back to the homestead.
Beresford, a tall, thin, relaxed man with tufted black eyebrows, a horseshoe ring of greying hair fringing the sunburnt baldness of his head, and lively hazel eyes twiligh in the lined brown leather of his face, came along only for the peace, comfort, and food: the company of the great left him cold, a fact vastly appreciated by captain Bullen, who shared his sentiments exactly.
Yankee, with the soaring imagination of that imaginative race, proposes to set fire to the Horseshoe Fall, and thus get up a grand nocturnal exhibition, to which the Surrey Zoological pyrotechny would bear the same ratio as a sky-rocket to Vesuvius.
But she seemed to respect its privacy, so it became like a treehouse, a repository for all manner of boy debris: fossilized cowpies, rodent skulls, comic books, homemade weapons, rusted horseshoes, and probably, long after my last ascent, racy magazines.
The fact that the funeral was for one of the noble patrons of Epsom Downs, and the tribute was in the form of a horseshoe, had not fazed Skippy for an instant.
Sam Cottage, monitoring the Sun on the morning after lift-off, saw with interest that Region 419 had maintained its horseshoe configuration, with signs indicating that a sunspot big enough to see with the naked eye might be developing, but there was no indication that a solar proton event might erupt.
Doc Daneeka that his eye patch be transparent so that he could continue pitching horseshoes, kidnaping Italian laborers and renting apartments with unimpaired vision.
The old stone hall had a vaulted ceiling, and whitewashed plaster walls hung with hundreds of horseshoes.
The men in the mortar platoon also went burdened with a mortar tube or baseplate, or a packframe loaded with 66 mm mortar bombs, plus propellant horseshoes.
In Osage County there were some pretty small towns: Bigheart, Hulah, Okeas, Wild Horse, Shidler, White Eagle, Horseshoe, Kaw City, Hog Shooter, Rock Salt, Bluestem, each of these towns being smaller than its fellows.
This Chequy Water rises in the Horseshoe Hills, which were wholly mine when last I looked.
For his leal service in the late rebellion, Lord Wyman and his descendants were granted all rights to the Chequy Water, from where it rises in the Horseshoe Hills to the shores of Leafy Lake.
Given the dirt and resin stains adhering to it, no one could possibly have told whether I had picked up cockleburs, bramble thorns, or even a horseshoe nail.
Major - de Coverley, either, who, when he was not away renting apartments or kidnaping foreign laborers, had nothing more pressing to do than pitch horseshoes.
Few people ever dared approach Major - de Coverley about anything and the only officer foolish enough to pitch one of his horseshoes was stricken the very next day with the worst case of Pianosan crud that Gus or Wes or even Doc Daneeka had ever seen or even heard about.