mis-shoe
English
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[edit]mis-shoe (third-person singular simple present mis-shoes, present participle mis-shoeing, simple past and past participle mis-shod or mis-shoed)
- (transitive, rare) To shoe incorrectly; put a shoe on wrong
- 2000, Philip Lawson, Muskrat Courage:
- “[...] Bun pays Byron a coupla grand to mis-shoe somebody else's pony.” I stuck my spoon in my peppery soup. “Why would he do that?” “This pony belongs to another customer of mine, Charlie Bun's top rival in the racing biz.
- 2001, Jake Logan, Slocum 265:
- The other had been mis-shod, causing the horse to favor that leg slightly.
- 2003, Greg Wood, Mystery of blacksmith who lost £100,000:
- However, it now seems that the investigators do not believe that the deliberate "laming" of horses is involved in the case. Injuring or mis-shoeing a horse so subtly that it walks sound in the paddock but is lame in a race is very hard to achieve.
- 2012, Thomas Cobb, With Blood in Their Eyes:
- When the measuring was done, not once, not twice, but three times, because to misshoe a horse was to risk destroying the animal, came the hammering and the beating of the iron to his will, then the measuring again, and more hammering.