Hypertext Webster Gateway: "horseshoe"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Horseshoe \Horse"shoe`\, n.
1. A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in
form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.

2. Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.

3. (Zo["o]l.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.

{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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

horseshoe
n 1: game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in
playing horseshoes
2: nailed to underside of horse's hoof [syn: {shoe}, {U-shaped
plate}]


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