Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 9 letters

horseshoe

Best crossword clue

"U-shaped charm"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɔːs.ʃuː/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eehhoorssStarts with HEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1H2O3R4S5E6S7H8O9E

Definitions

  1. equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English horsscho, from hors + scho. By surface analysis, horse + shoe.

Used in a sentence

  • And what has been thus affirmed of other leading commodities; the blacksmith, for example, no longer making, but buying his horseshoes, nails, nuts, and bolts;
  • Each player has a turn at tossing his horseshoes, one at a time, at the stob opposite him. His opponent then throws his horseshoes.
  • Whereas the railway heads inland to take the easier but much longer horseshoe-shaped route around the firth, the A9 directly crosses it from north to south on a bridge built in 1991.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues

01U-shaped charm9 letters

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

H________

Related words