What is the word horseshoe?

1 : a usually U-shaped band of iron fitted and nailed to the rim of a horses hoof to protect it. 2 : something (such as a valley) shaped like a horseshoe. 3 horseshoes plural : a game like quoits played with horseshoes or with horseshoe-shaped pieces of metal.

What is another name for a horse barn?

•artifact (noun) stalls, horse barn, stable.

What is another name for a hoof?

In this page you can discover 39 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hoof, like: ungula, foot, unguis, animal foot, trotter, bisulcate, cleft, cloven foot, paw, coffin-bone and cloven.

What is the proper name for a horse?

The horse or domestic horse (Equus caballus or Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated one-toed hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant species in the subgenus Equus.

What is the barn?

1a : a usually large building for the storage of farm products or feed and usually for the housing of farm animals or farm equipment. b : an unusually large and usually bare building a great barn of a hotel— W. A. White.

What is a better word for good?

great, satisfying, exceptional, positive, acceptable, satisfactory, valuable, superb, marvelous, bad, wonderful, favorable, excellent, respectable, honest, useful, talented, efficient, reliable, able.

Whats the plural of hoof?

noun. / ˈhu̇f , ˈhüf / plural hooves/ ˈhüvz , ˈhu̇vz / also hoofs.

What is slang for horse?

hobby (archaic, dialect) yarraman or yarramin (Australian) gee-gee (slang) cuddy or cuddie (dialect, mainly Scottish) studhorse or stud.

What is a female horse called?

mare …male horse is called a stallion, the female a mare.

What is a lucky horseshoe?

The horseshoe is considered very lucky and used to be hung in homes to protect it and attract good fortune for the family residing inside. According to this superstition, ends pointing down simply means that the good luck is able to flow out and surround the home.

Why are old barns so tall?

Farmers of old needed a very steep pitched roof on their barns for a few reasons. Rain Water tends to run off faster. If rain water was allowed to sit on the roof it would eventually leak through. Therefore these barns needed to have a very high pitched roof so that rainwater would not sit and soak through.

Why barns are painted red?

Hundreds of years ago, many farmers would seal their barns with linseed oil, which is an orange-colored oil derived from the seeds of the flax plant. Rust was plentiful on farms and because it killed fungi and mosses that might grow on barns, and it was very effective as a sealant. It turned the mixture red in color.

What is a slang word for good?

Gucci in slang means good, fine, or okay.

What is the plural of wolf?

wolf. / (wʊlf) / noun plural wolves (wʊlvz)