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Horseshoe
01
U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
horseshoes
02
game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes
03
a shape that looks like the letter U, with two ends that curve slightly inward
Examples
The dancers stood in a horseshoe formation.
to horseshoe
01
equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
horseshoe
3rd person singular
horseshoes
Present participle
horseshoeing
Past simple
horseshoed
Past participle
horseshoed
Lexical Tree
horseshoe
horse
shoe
