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horseshoes

n. 1 (plural of horseshoe English) 2 The game played by throwing horseshoes toward a metal stake. vb. (en-third-person singular of: horseshoe)

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horseshoes

n. a game in which quoits or horseshoes are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it [syn: quoits]

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Horseshoes

Horseshoes is an outdoor game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed apart. Modern games use a more stylized U-shaped bar, about twice the size of an actual horseshoe.

Horseshoes (film)

Horseshoes is a 1923 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.

Horseshoes (song)

"Horseshoes" is a song recorded by Canadian country music artist Adam Gregory. It was released in 2000 as the first single from his debut album, The Way I'm Made. It peaked at number 2 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in July 2000.

Usage examples of "horseshoes".

Beings who used gold for horseshoes might well be able to contribute a little more of it, even if unknowingly, to the retirement fund of a weary but deserving adventurer.

How many golden horseshoes would it take to establish himself on a substantial farm?

Why not try to gather in the wealth of a dozen horseshoes, or a score?

That, he supposed, could easily mean a hundred golden horseshoes nailed firmly on hooves, coming loose, or lying around somewhere as spares.

Anyone who deals in golden horseshoes ought to be able to afford a couple of cameloids.

Hal strongly suggested that she had seen him stuffing two saddlebags with golden horseshoes, and the hard stare of her blue eye made him feel guilty about it.

Of course it seemed that his stash of horseshoes would provide all the gold he really needed .

And, whether they knew it or not, they had his pitiful small trove of golden horseshoes with them.

The army would not miss a load of round shot, but it would suffer grievously when its last reserve of horseshoes was gone.

A dozen stations, horseshoes standing out from the walls with a crashcouch in the center, all occupied.

Without interrupting the rhythm of his juggling, he flipped one of the horseshoes to Drizzt.

His hands moving in a blur, he quickly had all eight horseshoes spinning and dropping harmoniously.

You will find some way to turn magical horseshoes into profit, I know.

At least that was the easiest way to explain the crushing sound, the horizontal storm of barrel-staves, pebbles, nails, horseshoes, and body parts that came and went through the smoke, and the sudden moaning and popping of timbers as sections of floor collapsed.

Emilia clung to the hind-bow of the saddle as they scrabbled along the steps, horseshoes sparking.