ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unshoe

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Unshoe is a verb meaning (transitive) to remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from.

Meaning

(transitive) to remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from.

Example Sentences

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 hollow heels, Though lately shod, at night go barefoot home, Their maister musing where their shoes become.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unlast, unhoof, unshawl, shuck, unshelve, unboot.

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