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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Horseshoe \Horse"shoe`\, n. 1. A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof. 2. Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab. 3. (Zo["o]l.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab. {Horsehoe head} (Med.), 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 the form of a horsehoe. {Horsehoe nail}. See {Horsenail}. {Horsehoe nose} (Zo["o]l.), a bat of the genus {Rhinolophus}, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: horseshoe n 1: an open ring of iron used in playing the game of horseshoes 2: nailed to underside of horse's hoof [syn: {shoe}, {U-shaped plate}]
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