Definition of horseshoe

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Horseshoe (n.) Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.

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Electro-magnet :: Electro-magnet (n.) A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe..
Sponged :: Sponge (n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel..
Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge..
Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.
Stubbed :: Stub (n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron..
Limulus :: Limulus (n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot..
Horsefoot :: Horsefoot (n.) The Limulus or horseshoe crab.
Merostomata :: Merostomata (n. pl.) A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus..
Hippocrepian :: Hippocrepian (n.) One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema..
Panton :: Panton (n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel..
Pritchel :: Pritchel (n.) A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.
Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof..
Poecilopoda :: Poecilopoda (n. pl.) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea)..
Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.
Hippocrepiform :: Hippocrepiform (a.) Shaped like a horseshoe.
Horseshoeing :: Horseshoeing (n.) The act or employment of shoeing horses.
Rhinolophid :: Rhinolophid (n.) Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat..
Phylactolaemata :: Phylactolaemata (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians..
Manilla :: Manilla (n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa..
Clip :: Clip (n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak..
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