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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HORSESHOE, n. A shoe for horses, consisting of a plate of iron of a circular form.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes
2: U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof [syn: horseshoe, shoe] v
1: equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. a usually U-shaped band of iron fitted and nailed to the rim of a horse's hoof to protect it 2. something (as a valley) shaped like a horseshoe 3. plural a game like quoits played with horseshoes or with horseshoe-shaped pieces of metal • horseshoe transitive verb • horseshoer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an iron shoe for a horse shaped like the outline of the hard part of the hoof. 2 a thing of this shape; an object shaped like C or U (e.g. a magnet, a table, a Spanish or Islamic arch). Phrases and idioms: horseshoe crab a large marine arthropod, Xiphosura polyphemus, with a horseshoe-shaped shell and a long tail-spine: also called king-crab.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(horseshoes) 1. A horseshoe is a piece of metal shaped like a U, which is fixed with nails to the bottom of a horse's foot in order to protect it. N-COUNT 2. A horseshoe is an object in the shape of a horseshoe which is used as a symbol of good luck, especially at a wedding. N-COUNT