shoeing in English
If you have a lot of rocks in your pasture and/or you ride your horse often in a rocky area; you may need to shoe your horse.
Use "shoeing" in a sentence
1. Shoeing plates adapted for horseshoes
2. In England, shoeing was accomplished by laying the ox on the ground and lashing all four feet to a heavy wooden tripod until the shoeing was complete.
3. " However, I've gotten quite adept at shoeing horses and fixing wagons. "
4. Cloy To pierce; gore.; Cloy In farriery, to prick (a horse) in shoeing.; Cloy To stop up; obstruct; clog.; Cloy To spike; drive a spike into the vent of: as, to Cloy a gun.; Cloy To satiate; gratify to repletion or so as to cause loathing; surfeit; sate.; Cloy Synonyms Sate, etc
5. Cloy (v.) "weary by too much, fill to loathing, surfeit," 1520s, from Middle English Cloyen "hinder movement, encumber" (late 14c.), a shortening of acCloyen (early 14c.), from Old French encloer "to fasten with a nail, grip, grasp," figuratively "to hinder, check, stop, curb," from Late Latin inclavare "drive a nail into a horse's foot when shoeing," from Latin clavus "a nail" (from PIE root