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Barking hounds awaiting a farrier?
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unshod
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals; "discalced friars" [syn: discalced , discalceate ] [ant: calced ] not shod [syn: unshoed ] [ant: shod ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not shod; without shoes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"without shoes," Old English unscod ; see un- (1) "not" + shod (adj.). Old English also had a verb unscogan "to unshoe."
Usage examples of unshod.
There were a vast host of Highlanders, lean as whiter wolves, unshod and barelegged in the cold mud, dirty, disheveled, usually bearded and armed only with dirks, cowhide targets, and a miscellany of archaic polearms.
One day I saw him in his attic: clad in black trousers and a white evening shirt, he lay on his back, rolling an empty gin bottle about with his unshod feet and playing the trumpet just wonderfully.
Unshod feet, a shirt like a fishing net, and pantaloons as well ventilated as a paling fence might do very well for the broiling sun at Andersonville and Savannah, but now, with the thermometer nightly dipping a little nearer the frost line, it became unpleasantly evident that as garments their office was purely perfunctory.
Already you could see through the dust on the ponies' hides the painted chevrons and the hands and rising suns and birds and fish of every device like the shade of old work through sizing on a canvas and now too you could hear above the poundÂing of the unshod hooves the piping of the quena, flutes niade from human bones, and some among the company had begun to saw back on their mounts and some to mill in confusion when up from the offside of those ponies there rose a fabled horde of mounted lancers and archers bearing shields bedight with bits of broken mirrorglass that cast a thousand unpieced suns against the eyes of their enemies.