Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or business of shoeing horses; farriery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or employment of shoeing horses.
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- verb Present participle of
horseshoe .
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Examples
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She wanders around the farm in her pretty new hat and I follow her to where Pappa does his horseshoeing.
The Trouble With May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm 2011
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She wanders around the farm in her pretty new hat and I follow her to where Pappa does his horseshoeing.
The Trouble With May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm 2011
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He went on and traced his life in the mills, the learning of the horseshoeing trade, and his meeting with the socialists.
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Ronda and her friend Glenda Larson both hated it when voices were raised in anger, and after one session of horseshoeing with Mark, neither woman wanted to endure another.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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Ronda and her friend Glenda Larson both hated it when voices were raised in anger, and after one session of horseshoeing with Mark, neither woman wanted to endure another.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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Ronda and her friend Glenda Larson both hated it when voices were raised in anger, and after one session of horseshoeing with Mark, neither woman wanted to endure another.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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They indulged in some serious horseshoeing and harness making, but more frequently their band earned its living amusing, and sometimes fleecing, visitors to holy sites, festivals, and fairs.
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The brothers temporarily left off horseshoeing in order to watch me take their brother Wyatt down a peg.
Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006
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At that all three of the horseshoeing brothers snickered.
Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006
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Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared.
The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004
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