roughshod : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: roughshod	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for roughshod
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
roughshod adj (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" Synonym(s): barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy- handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition" Synonym(s): heavy-handed, roughshod
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roughshod \Rough"shod\, a. Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. {To ride roughshod}, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.