mis-shoe

English

Alternative forms

• misshoe

Etymology

From mis- +‎ shoe.

Verb

mis-shoe (third-person singular simple present mis-shoes, present participle mis-shoeing, simple past and past participle mis-shod or mis-shoed)

1. (transitive, rare) To shoe incorrectly; put a shoe on wrong
   • 2000, Philip Lawson, Muskrat Courage:

     “[...] Bun pays Byron a coupla grand to mis-shoe somebody else's pony.” I stuck my spoon in my peppery soup. “Why would he do that?” “This pony belongs to another customer of mine, Charlie Bun's top rival in the racing biz.

   • 2001, Jake Logan, Slocum 265:

     The other had been mis-shod, causing the horse to favor that leg slightly.

   • 2003, Greg Wood, Mystery of blacksmith who lost £100,000:

     However, it now seems that the investigators do not believe that the deliberate "laming" of horses is involved in the case. Injuring or mis-shoeing a horse so subtly that it walks sound in the paddock but is lame in a race is very hard to achieve.

   • 2012, Thomas Cobb, With Blood in Their Eyes:

     When the measuring was done, not once, not twice, but three times, because to misshoe a horse was to risk destroying the animal, came the hammering and the beating of the iron to his will, then the measuring again, and more hammering.

Related terms

• misshod

Anagrams

• Mishoes