Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having shoes not specially provided with cogs, calks, or spikes to prevent slipping: chiefly noting animals: opposed to rough-shod or sharp-shod.
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Examples
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Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on!
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Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on!
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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They were smooth-shod, and, the weight of the wagon being out of all proportion to their strength, they fell often in their futile struggles.
'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916
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The hills were now grey glass, and all the horses smooth-shod.
The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903
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On those cold days, drivers were demanding impossible things of smooth-shod horses on icy streets, and he saw many a noble beast on his knees, "begging me," as he said, "to get him a priest."
Songs and Other Verse Eugene Field 1872
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Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on!
David Copperfield 1850
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Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on!
David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841
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