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shod

UK/ʃɒd/US/ʃɑd/
adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,776 of 15,258neutral

Shod means wearing shoes, or fitted with metal shoes. Well shod, shod in leather, a newly shod horse.

It is the past participle of shoe and survives mostly in compounds and set phrases. The best known is the proverb about the shoemaker's children going unshod, meaning that experts neglect their own affairs.

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Definitions of shod

  1. 1adjectiveshodWearing shoes, or fitted with metal shoes.C1

    “Make sure the children are well shod in sturdy boots before the hike.”

shod is a state.

Where it comes from

Middle English shoed is the past participle of the verb to shoe, from Old English scoh, a shoe.

  1. Middle English

    shoed

  2. English, today

    shod

From Middle English shoed, past participle of shon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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shod in the wild

  • The two basic categories of Tennessee Walking Horse show competition are called "flat-shod" and "performance", distinguished by desired leg action.

    Tennessee Walking Horse

  • Performance horses are shod with built-up pads or "stacks", along with other weighted action devices, creating the so-called "Big Lick" style.

    Tennessee Walking Horse

  • Filippo is reputed to have received the nickname "Argenti" by having his horse shod with silver.

    Filippo Argenti

  • All drivers used Saab powered Goodyear shod Mondiale chassis.

    1989 Barber Saab Pro Series

  • All drivers used Dodge powered Michelin shod Reynard 98E chassis.

    2002 Barber Dodge Pro Series

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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