Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A flat piece of iron, with or without calks, shaped to one part of the hoof of an ox and pierced with holes near the outer edge to receive the wrought-iron flat-headed clinch-nails used to fasten it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.

Etymologies

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ox +‎ shoe

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