Definitions

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  • adjective shod or cased with iron

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Examples

  • For though the ironshod dart would draw no blood from them, they with the thyrsus, which they hurled, caused many a wound and put their foes to utter rout, women chasing men, by some god's intervention.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • For though the ironshod dart would draw no blood from them, they with the thyrsus, which they hurled, caused many a wound and put their foes to utter rout, women chasing men, by some god's intervention.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • He was searching for a wife when he fell into the trap, the cruel ironshod teeth of the device bit deep into the soft part of his leg.

    Archive 2003-02-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • So she bought as she was going home, and saw the colliers trailing from the pits, grey-black, distorted, one shoulder higher than the other, slurring their heavy ironshod boots.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • "Enter," he said wryly as the clumping and stomping of ironshod feet halted just outside the tent flap.

    War of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1986

  • Place, a new and greater kingdom, anarchy held down by an ironshod heel, peace and the fruits thereof, until out of very prosperity the people grew fat and content.

    Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • But scratches made by ironshod hoofs on the rocks might have led expert trackers to suspect the hoisting of stolen stock up the cliff.

    Bloom of Cactus Robert Ames Bennet 1912

  • Those that in the passes of the mountain had lost their lances had provided themselves with the goads used by the Campo cattlemen: slender shafts of palm fully ten feet long, with a lot of loose rings jingling under the ironshod point.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • Waving arms and clutching fingers pursued them from below; ironshod heels trampled them from above.

    Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 Various 1904

  • With sharpened scythes and pitchforks, with pointed staves and heavy truncheons and ironshod clubs, they killed the miserable Germans all day long, and the line of escape was marked along the Beauvoisine road by corpses almost to

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

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