Definition of Ironshod
1. Adjective. Shod or cased with iron. "Ironshod wheels"
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Literary usage of Ironshod
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"An ironshod staff attached to the axle of the hind wheel of a waggon to prevent
it running back down hill. [Hund. of Berk.] [F. of D.] SCOTE. vb. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... pinne, a small spit or ironshod staff, the pinnacle of a steeple (id.) ; Swed.
pinne, a peg, Dan. pind, a (pointed) stick ; Icel. piani, ..."
3. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"... clinging like a squirrel to a tree, he climbed with me straight up ten of
twelve feet, with only the help of my ironshod feet scrambling on the rock. ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Tricolour ribands streaming aloft from Pike-heads ; ironshod batons ; and emblems
not a few ; among which see specially these two, of the tragic and ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"An ironshod staff attached to the axle of the hind wheel of a waggon to prevent
it running back down hill. [Hund. of Berk.] [F. of D.] SCOTE. vb. ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... pinne, a small spit or ironshod staff, the pinnacle of a steeple (id.) ; Swed.
pinne, a peg, Dan. pind, a (pointed) stick ; Icel. piani, ..."
7. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"... clinging like a squirrel to a tree, he climbed with me straight up ten of
twelve feet, with only the help of my ironshod feet scrambling on the rock. ..."
8. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Tricolour ribands streaming aloft from Pike-heads ; ironshod batons ; and emblems
not a few ; among which see specially these two, of the tragic and ..."
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