What is "ironshod"

Usage examples of "ironshod".

He put provisions for two days into a bag, took his steel climbing iron, tied a long, thin, strong rope round his waist, and looked to see that his ironshod stick and his axe, which served to cut steps in the ice, were in order.

Hudge rolled from the hammock screaming, banging around the room, his ironshod foot clattering down upon the floorboards.

The great stone walls were so thick that the men who patrolled on top on horseback looked like ants riding small spiders, and ironshod hooves dislodged rocks that tumbled down the cliff and splashed in the water around the barge.

Five minutes later they were standing in the street outside the tall ironshod wooden doors of the portal.

They rode straight ahead, passing thrice above lake water and narrow canals, the ironshod hooves ringing on the hard wood of the bridges.

Reinforced beams with ironshod points crunched through the gilded cart, splitting it all the way to the axle.

He wore a travel robe and carried a light pack on his back and an ironshod stave in his hand.

Their ironshod hooves drew sparks from the stones of the paving, and they tossed their heads as they ran, plainly fresh and eager for an allout run.

Soundly beaten by that ironshod army -- for the weapons of the Kushites, like those of the Egyptians, were of stone and bronze -- they retired southward but saved their independence.

He was rewarded by the sound of ironshod wood ringing off ironbound buckler.

Ports had been cut into the steep sides of the river banks to enable a wagon to enter the watercourse, and the sandbank between two tranquil green pools had been corduroyed with carefully selected branches, cut to length and laid side by side across the softer going to prevent the narrow ironshod wheels from sinking.