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horseshoeing

horseshoeing

4.8
Putting metal shoes on a horse's hooves to protect them
  • noun
  • /ˈhɔrsˌʃuːɪŋ/
  • Specialized
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  • He learned the skill of horseshoeing to help keep the horses' hooves healthy.

Examples

  • After completing a horseshoeing course, she worked as a farrier for several years.

  • You want any horseshoeing done, you're gonna have to get it done yourself.

    The Hired Hand (1971)

  • Bugler, do you want to get busted back to horseshoeing?

    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

  • Listen to these courses: horseshoeing and horsemanship, blacksmithing.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • golf, mountain biking, horseshoeing, jogging, tennis, cheerleading

    Blog text (6)

  • They indulged in some serious horseshoeing and harness making, but more frequently their band earned its living amusing and sometimes fleecing visitors to holy sites, festivals, and fairs.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The workshop focused on the art of horseshoeing and its importance in equine care.

Surface Forms

horseshoeing singular
horseshoings plural

Morphology

horseshoeing = horseshoe (transparent) = horse + shoe + ing

The noun is a regular -ing formation from the verb 'horseshoe', and the verb is transparently built from 'horse' + 'shoe'.

Etymology

The word horseshoeing comes from the parts horse and shoe, literally meaning 'putting a shoe on a horse'. So, horseshoeing is the process of fitting metal shoes to a horse's hooves to protect them, much like human shoes protect our feet.