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roughshod

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹʌfʃɒd/Part of speech adjectiveSorted dghhoorsuStarts with REnds with D0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. unjustly domineering

Word origin

From rough + shod.

Used in a sentence

  • The horses fell down three times, the roads being slippery, and we walked three miles to Linlithgow. There we waited two hours, to have the fresh horses roughshod.
  • Those who have followed a French army well know that their horses are always rough-shod. [...] Horses can bear cold when properly fed, and if they had not been rough-shod there were farriers attached to the army.
  • A horse is roughshod when the nails are left protruding out of its shoes so that the animal does not slip and fall. Consequently, being ridden over by a roughshod horse would be quite agonizing.

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