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iron-shod

iron-shod adjective: of a horse, shod with iron horseshoes.

Adjective

iron-shod (not comparable)

  1. Of a horse, shod with iron horseshoes.
  2. Of a wheel or other device, having a protective iron casing or strip.
    • And so it happened that before the elephant realized that his new enemy had leaped from his path Tarzan had driven his iron-shod spear from behind the massive shoulder straight into the fierce heart, and the colossal pachyderm had toppled to his death at the feet of the ape-man.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 132

Questions about iron-shod

What does iron-shod mean?
Iron-shod means of a horse, shod with iron horseshoes.
What part of speech is iron-shod?
Iron-shod is an adjective.

Words near iron-shod in the dictionary

  1. iron-heartedness
  2. iron-montmorillonite
  3. iron-ore
  4. iron-ores
  5. iron-rich
  6. iron-shod
  7. iron-shot
  8. iron-sick
  9. iron-sulfur cluster
  10. iron-sulfur clusters
  11. iron-sulfur protein

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