Word Meanings - HORSESHOEING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or employment of shoeing horses.

Related words: (words related to HORSESHOEING)

• SHOEBILL
  A large African wading bird allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. of Beak.
• SHOEBLACK
  One who polishes shoes.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• SHOE
  scho, AS. sc, sceóh; akin to OFries. sk, OS. sk, D. schoe, schoen, G. schuh, OHG. scuoh, Icel. sk, Dan. & Sw. sko, Goth. sk; of unknown 1. A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter
• SHOEMAKING
  The business of a shoemaker.
• SHOER
  One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses.
• HORSESHOEING
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• HORSESHOER
  One who shoes horses.
• SHOELESS
  Destitute of shoes. Addison.
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• SHOEMAKER
  1. One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots. The threadfish. The runner, 12.
• SHOEHORN; SHOEING-HORN
  1. A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe. 2. Figuratively: Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium; -- by way of contempt. Spectator. Anything which draws on or
• SHOEFLY
  1. A contrivance for throwing the track temporarily to one side for convenience in filling washouts or effecting other repairs. 2. In some cylinder presses, a device with long fingers for freeing the sheet from the cylinder.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• OXSHOE
  A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.
• SNOWSHOEING
  Traveling on snowshoes.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• SNOWSHOE
  A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.
• WASHOE PROCESS
  The process of treating silver ores by grinding in pans or tubs with the addition of mercury, and sometimes of chemicals such as blue vitriol and salt.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• OVERSHOE
  A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.
• KICKSHOE
  A kickshaws. Milton.