horseshoe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: horseshoe	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for horseshoe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
horseshoe n game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof Synonym(s): horseshoe, shoe v equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes
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[94]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[94]l.), a bat of the genus {Rhinolophus}, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.