horseshoe
noun
a U -shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
horseshoer
-
a word derived from
horseshoe.
Example Sentences
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Then they seek out the only other horseshoer they’ve found in the cemetery and clean his grave too.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
Born April 24, 1895, Dolen served as a horseshoer during World War I, when cars were rare and men like him traveled to faraway lands calming the animals as bombs exploded around them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
Mr. Foreman taught on a Zuni reservation in New Mexico and worked as a farrier, or horseshoer, before joining the Wilderness Society as its Southwest regional representative.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
Indeed, Chafee the Younger seems a refugee from the counterculture: he worked as a blacksmith and horseshoer after graduating from Brown University with a classics degree in 1975.
From Time Magazine Archive
At ten years of age he had gone to work in the mills, and later he served his apprenticeship and became a horseshoer.
From The Iron Heel by Jack London
