Definition: horseshoe

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

horseshoe
     n 1: game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in
          playing horseshoes
     2: nailed to underside of horse's hoof [syn: shoe, U-shaped
        plate]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.