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unshoe

unshoe verb: to remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from.

Verb

unshoe (third-person singular simple present unshoes, present participle unshoeing, simple past and past participle unshoed or unshod)

  1. (transitive) to remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from.
    • With plants of the kind we may compare the wonder-working moonwort (Botrychium lunaria), which was said to open locks and to unshoe horses that trod on it, a notion which Du Bartas thus mentions in his "Divine Weekes" – "Horses that, feeding on the grassy hills, Tread upon moonwort with their...1889, T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, The Folk-lore of Plants

Forms of unshoe

third-person singular presentunshoes
present participleunshoeing
past participleunshoed
pastunshoed
past participleunshod
pastunshod

Origin of unshoe

From Middle English unshon, from Old English onscōgan (“to unshoe”), equivalent to un- + shoe.

Questions about unshoe

What does unshoe mean?
Unshoe means to remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from.
What part of speech is unshoe?
Unshoe is a verb.
What is the past tense of unshoe?
The past tense of unshoe is unshoed.

Words near unshoe in the dictionary

  1. unshocked
  2. unshocking
  3. unshod
  4. unshodden
  5. unshoddy
  6. unshoe
  7. unshoed
  8. unshoeing
  9. unshoes
  10. unshone
  11. unshook

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