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mis-shoe en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + shoe.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To shoe incorrectly; put a shoe on wrong
   • “[...] 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. 2000, Philip Lawson, Muskrat Courage:
   • The other had been mis-shod, causing the horse to favor that leg slightly. 2001, Jake Logan, Slocum 265:
   • 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. 2012, Thomas Cobb, With Blood in Their Eyes:
   • 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. 2003, Greg Wood, Mystery of blacksmith who lost £100,000:

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