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unshoeing

unshoeing is the present participle and gerund of unshoe.

Meaning of unshoe

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

Questions about unshoeing

What is unshoeing the present participle and gerund of?
Unshoeing is the present participle and gerund of unshoe.

Words near unshoeing in the dictionary

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

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