英语词汇horseshoe的发音释义、词根词缀、结构分析、同源词、词频及词根记忆法-英语词根词缀词典

horseshoe

late 14c. (early 13c. as a proper name), from horse, n. + shoe, n.. Horseshoes as another name for the game of quoits, attested by 1822.

HORSE-SHOES, the game of coits, or quoits--because sometimes actually played with horse-shoes. [John Trotter Brockett, "A Glossary of North Country Words," 1829]

The belief that finding a horseshoe by chance is lucky is attested from late 14c., and the practice of nailing one above a doorway to prevent a witch entering therein was common in London down to c.1800. Of a type of bend in a river, 1770, American English. As a type of crab, from 1775.

词汇	horseshoe
词根词缀	Online Etymology Dictionary horseshoe n. late 14c. (early 13c. as a proper name), from horse, n. + shoe, n.. Horseshoes as another name for the game of quoits, attested by 1822. HORSE-SHOES, the game of coits, or quoits--because sometimes actually played with horse-shoes. [John Trotter Brockett, "A Glossary of North Country Words," 1829] The belief that finding a horseshoe by chance is lucky is attested from late 14c., and the practice of nailing one above a doorway to prevent a witch entering therein was common in London down to c.1800. Of a type of bend in a river, 1770, American English. As a type of crab, from 1775.
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