Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flat piece of iron, with or without calks, shaped to one part of the hoof of an ox and pierced with holes near the outer edge to receive the wrought-iron flat-headed clinch-nails used to fasten it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
shoe foroxen , consisting of a flat piece ofiron nailed to thehoof .
Etymologies
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ox + shoe
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