iron-shod

adjective

Of a horse, shod with iron horseshoes.

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Meanings

adjectiveiron-shod (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf a horse, shod with iron horseshoes.
  2. not comparableOf 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
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APA

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Chicago

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