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Shoeing

Shoe \Shoe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shod; p. pr. & vb. n. Shoeing.] [AS. sc?ian, sce?ian. See Shoe, n.]

  1. To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor.

  2. To protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip.

    The sharp and small end of the billiard stick, which is shod with brass or silver.
    --Evelyn.

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shoeing

n. The act of fitting an animal with horseshoes. vb. (present participle of shoe English)

Usage examples of "shoeing".

You can go shoeing with me when snow flies, if you want, and I'll show you how to use your Beavertails, Maybe you'd like to see my traps.

He got the forge going out in the shoeing shed and toiled away, clumsily burning some words into one of the mining company's standard wooden grave markers, now and again looking up into the low-hanging, sky from which descended that chill, flat, no-smell smell of snow.

In the south, too, hoop iron or whalebone is used for runner shoeing.

From boyhood he had been a tough, iron-fisted bruiser, starting at six when he had helped his father in their blacksmith shop, shoeing horses, mending carts, sharpening plow-blades or whatever needed it.