name
Meaning 1
A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
horseshoe
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːs.ʃuː/
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Received-Pronunciation, colloquial: /ˈhɔː.ʃuː/
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US: /ˈhɔːɹs.ʃuː/
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US: /ˈhɔːɹ.ʃuː/
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CMU ARPABET: HH AO1 R S SH UW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The U-shaped shoe of a horse, now typically made of metal; by extension, a representation of this used to play the game horseshoes, hung as a luck charm, etc.
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noun
Meaning 3
The U shape of a horseshoe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- the horseshoe of the Carpathians
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noun
Meaning 4
A well-developed set of triceps brachii muscles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: bodybuilding, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 5
The symbol ⊃.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
An open-faced sandwich originating from Springfield, Illinois, consisting of thick-sliced toasted bread, often Texas toast, a hamburger patty, French fries, and a cheese sauce.
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noun
Meaning 7
A U-shaped life buoy.
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verb
Meaning 8
To apply horseshoes to (a horse).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: shoe
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noun
Meaning 9
U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shoe
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plate, scale, shell
noun
Meaning 10
game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: game equipment
verb
Meaning 11
equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: equip, fit, fit out, outfit
History
Etymology
Calks (identified by the letter "C" on the shown horseshoe) consist of spur-point and a shank to form an antislipping device. Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós? Proto-Indo-European *h1wers-? Proto-Indo-European *wers- Proto-Indo-European *-ḗn Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā Proto-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šāder.? Proto-Germanic *hrussą Proto-West Germanic *hross Old English hors Middle English hors Proto-Germanic *skōhaz Proto-West Germanic *skōh Old English sċōh Middle English scho Middle English horsscho English horseshoe Inherited from Middle English horsscho, from hors + scho. By surface analysis, horse + shoe.
Across languages
Translations
194 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: hoefyster — metallic shoe of a horse
- Albanian: patkua — metallic shoe of a horse
- Albanian: potkua — metallic shoe of a horse
- Southern Altai: така (taka) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Arabic: حَدْوَة (ḥadwa) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Arabic: حِدْوَة (ḥidwa) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Arabic: نَعْل (naʕl) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Armenian: պայտ (payt) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Armenian: նալ (nal) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Asturian: ferradura — metallic shoe of a horse
- Azerbaijani: nal — metallic shoe of a horse
- Baluchi: نال (nál) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Baluchi: نعل — metallic shoe of a horse
- Bashkir: даға (dağa) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Basque: ferra — metallic shoe of a horse
- Belarusian: падко́ва (padkóva) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Bengali: নাল (nal) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Breton: houarn marc'h — metallic shoe of a horse
- Bulgarian: подко́ва (podkóva) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Burmese: မြင်းခွာ (mrang:hkwa) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Burmese: မြင်းသံခွာ (mrang:samhkwa) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Burmese: သံခွာ (samhkwa) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Catalan: ferradura — metallic shoe of a horse
- Chinese Mandarin: 馬掌 /马掌 (mǎzhǎng) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Chinese Mandarin: 馬蹄鐵 /马蹄铁 (mǎtítiě) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Chinese Mandarin: 馬蹄 /马蹄 (mǎtí) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Chuvash: такан (tak̬an) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Czech: podkova — metallic shoe of a horse
- Danish: hestesko — metallic shoe of a horse
- Dutch: hoefijzer — metallic shoe of a horse
- Esperanto: huffero — metallic shoe of a horse
- Esperanto: hufofero — metallic shoe of a horse
- Esperanto: hufumo — metallic shoe of a horse
- Estonian: hobuseraud — metallic shoe of a horse
- Faroese: hestaskógvur — metallic shoe of a horse
- Faroese: hóvjarn — metallic shoe of a horse
- Finnish: hevosenkenkä — metallic shoe of a horse
- French: fer à cheval — metallic shoe of a horse
- Galician: ferradura — metallic shoe of a horse
- Georgian: ნალი (nali) — metallic shoe of a horse
- German: Hufeisen — metallic shoe of a horse
- German: Beschlag — metallic shoe of a horse
- Greek: πέταλο (pétalo) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Hawaiian: kāmaʻa hao — metallic shoe of a horse
- Hawaiian: kapuaʻihao lio — metallic shoe of a horse
- Hebrew: פַּרְסָה (parsá) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Hindi: नाल (nāl) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Hindi: खुरप (khurap) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Hindi: अश्वनाल (aśvanāl) — metallic shoe of a horse
- White Hmong: khau nees — metallic shoe of a horse
- Hungarian: patkó — metallic shoe of a horse
- Hungarian: lópatkó — metallic shoe of a horse
- Hunsrik: Hufeise — metallic shoe of a horse
- Icelandic: skeifa — metallic shoe of a horse
- Ido: kavalofero — metallic shoe of a horse
- Ido: hufofero — metallic shoe of a horse
- Indonesian: tapal kuda — metallic shoe of a horse
- Indonesian: ladam — metallic shoe of a horse
- Ingrian: hepoisen rauta — metallic shoe of a horse
- Irish: crú — metallic shoe of a horse
- Italian: ferro di cavallo — metallic shoe of a horse
- Japanese: 蹄鉄 (teitetsu) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Kalmyk: тах (tax) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Kazakh: таға (tağa) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Khmer: ទ្រនាប់ជើងសេះ (trɔɔnŏəpcəəngseh) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Korean: 편자 (pyeonja) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Central Kurdish: ناڵ (nall) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Northern Kurdish: nal — metallic shoe of a horse
- Kyrgyz: така (taka) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Lao: ເຫລັກໂຄບຕີນມ້າ (lek khōp tīn mā) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Lao: ເກີບມ້າ (kœ̄p mā) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Latin: solea ferrea — metallic shoe of a horse
- Latin: ferrum equōrum — metallic shoe of a horse
- Latvian: pakavs — metallic shoe of a horse
- Lithuanian: pasaga — metallic shoe of a horse
- Lü: ᦵᦂᦲᧇᧈᦙᦱᧉ (k̇oeb1maa2) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Luxembourgish: Houfeisen — metallic shoe of a horse
- Macedonian: потковица (potkovica) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Macedonian: поткова (potkova) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Malay: ladam — metallic shoe of a horse
- Maltese: nagħal — metallic shoe of a horse
- Māori: haeana — metallic shoe of a horse
- Eastern Mari: таган (tagan) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Middle English: horsscho — metallic shoe of a horse
- Mongolian: тах (tax) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Norman: fé à j'va — metallic shoe of a horse
- Norwegian Bokmål: hestesko — metallic shoe of a horse
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hestesko — metallic shoe of a horse
- Occitan: ferradura — metallic shoe of a horse
- Pashto: نال (nāl) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Pennsylvania German: Hufeise — metallic shoe of a horse
- Persian: نعل اسب (na'l-e asb) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Persian: نعل (na'l) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Persian: بشک (bašk) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Plautdietsch: Hoofiesa — metallic shoe of a horse
- Polish: podkowa — metallic shoe of a horse
- Portuguese: ferradura — metallic shoe of a horse
- Romanian: potcoavă — metallic shoe of a horse
- Russian: подко́ва (podkóva) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Scottish Gaelic: crudha — metallic shoe of a horse
- Serbo-Croatian: потковица — metallic shoe of a horse
- Serbo-Croatian: поткова — metallic shoe of a horse
- Serbo-Croatian: potkovica — metallic shoe of a horse
- Serbo-Croatian: potkova — metallic shoe of a horse
- Sicilian: ferru di cavaḍḍu — metallic shoe of a horse
- Slovak: podkova — metallic shoe of a horse
- Slovene: podkev — metallic shoe of a horse
- Spanish: herradura — metallic shoe of a horse
- Spanish: casquillo — metallic shoe of a horse
- Spanish: herraje — metallic shoe of a horse
- Spanish: ferradura (disused) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Swedish: hästsko — metallic shoe of a horse
- Tagalog: bakal ng kabayo — metallic shoe of a horse
- Tajik: наъл (na'l) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Tamil: லாடம் (lāṭam) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Telugu: గుర్రపునాడా (gurrapunāḍā) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Thai: เกือกม้า (gʉ̀ʉak-máa) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Tibetan: རྨིག་ལྕགས (rmig lcags) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Turkish: nal — metallic shoe of a horse
- Ottoman Turkish: نعل (naʼl) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Turkmen: naal — metallic shoe of a horse
- Ukrainian: підко́ва (pidkóva) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Urdu: نال (nāl) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Urdu: نَعْل (na'l) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Uyghur: تاقا (taqa) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Uzbek: taqa — metallic shoe of a horse
- Uzbek: nagʻal — metallic shoe of a horse
- Vietnamese: móng ngựa — metallic shoe of a horse
- Volapük: safafer — metallic shoe of a horse
- Welsh: pedol — metallic shoe of a horse
- Yakut: боккуоп (bokkuop) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Yiddish: פּאָדקאָווע (podkove) — metallic shoe of a horse
- Czech: podkova — shape of a horseshoe
- Dutch: hoefijzer — shape of a horseshoe
- Finnish: hevosenkenkä — shape of a horseshoe
- French: fer à cheval — shape of a horseshoe
- Hungarian: patkó — shape of a horseshoe
- Italian: ferro di cavallo — shape of a horseshoe
- Japanese: 馬蹄 (batei) — shape of a horseshoe
- Latvian: pakavs — shape of a horseshoe
- Macedonian: потковица (potkovica) — shape of a horseshoe
- Norwegian Bokmål: hestesko — shape of a horseshoe
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hestesko — shape of a horseshoe
- Polish: podkowa — shape of a horseshoe
- Portuguese: ferradura — shape of a horseshoe
- Romanian: potcoavă — shape of a horseshoe
- Russian: подко́ва (podkóva) — shape of a horseshoe
- Serbo-Croatian: потковица — shape of a horseshoe
- Serbo-Croatian: поткова — shape of a horseshoe
- Serbo-Croatian: potkovica — shape of a horseshoe
- Serbo-Croatian: potkova — shape of a horseshoe
- Sicilian: ferru di cavaḍḍu — shape of a horseshoe
- Spanish: herradura — shape of a horseshoe
- Swedish: hästsko — shape of a horseshoe
- Telugu: గుర్రపు నాడా (gurrapu nāḍā) — shape of a horseshoe
- Thai: เกือกม้า (gʉ̀ʉak-máa) — shape of a horseshoe
- Ottoman Turkish: نعل (naʼl) — shape of a horseshoe
- Finnish: hevosenkenkä — bodybuilding: well-developed set of triceps brachii
- Macedonian: подмножество (podmnožestvo) — logic: the symbol ⊃
- Russian: подмно́жество (podmnóžestvo) — logic: the symbol ⊃
- Serbo-Croatian: подскуп — logic: the symbol ⊃
- Serbo-Croatian: podskup — logic: the symbol ⊃
- Armenian: պայտել (paytel) — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Armenian: նալել (nalel) — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Bulgarian: подковавам (podkovavam) — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Catalan: ferrar — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Czech: podkovat — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Czech: okovat — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Danish: sko — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Finnish: kengittää — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- French: ferrer — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Galician: ferrar — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- German: beschlagen — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Greek: πεταλώνω (petalóno) — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Hungarian: patkol — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Icelandic: járna — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Ingrian: ravvoittaa — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Ingrian: ravvattaa — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Macedonian: потковува (potkovuva) — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Norwegian Bokmål: sko — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sko — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Polish: podkuwać — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Polish: podkuć — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Polish: kuć — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Portuguese: ferrar — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Romanian: potcovi — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Russian: подко́вывать (podkóvyvatʹ) — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Russian: подкова́ть (podkovátʹ) — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Scottish Gaelic: crudhaich — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Serbo-Croatian: potkòvati — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Spanish: herrar — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Swedish: sko — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Turkish: nallamak — to apply horseshoes to a horse
- Volapük: safaferön — to apply horseshoes to a horse
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