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# horseshoe

«horseshoe» in Mova's school dictionary: **A U-shaped piece of metal nailed to the bottom of a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a horseshoe, horseshoes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A U-shaped piece of metal nailed to the bottom of a horse's hoof to protect it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/#m1)

2) Anything shaped like a U, as in a horseshoe magnet or a horseshoe bend in a river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories a horseshoe hung over a door is a sign of good luck. In science a horseshoe magnet has two poles close together. In geography a river can bend in a horseshoe shape. On farms a blacksmith or farrier fits horseshoes.

### examples

- The farrier nailed a new horseshoe on the pony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/#x1)
- A horseshoe hangs above our front door for luck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/#x2)
- We picked up paper clips with a horseshoe magnet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/#x3)
- The tables were set out in a horseshoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/#x4)
- The river makes a horseshoe bend near the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/#x5)
- We played a game of throwing horseshoes at a peg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/#x6)
- Horses need new horseshoes every few weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/#x7)

### note

Countable; one word. Horseshoes do not hurt horses because the hoof is like a thick fingernail. Luck from horseshoes is a superstition, not a fact. Not the same as a horseshoe crab, which is a sea animal.

### In the corpora

- [A blacksmith fits one horseshoe on each hoof, so every horse needs 4 horseshoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/206-horseshoes/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «horseshoe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horseshoe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.