horseshoe

• vt.蹄鉄を履く
• n. 蹄鉄; U字型の物体

馬、馬、靴。蹄鉄は民間伝承では幸運のお守り。

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.

1. Ferries churn the waters of Howe Sound from Langdale to Horseshee Bay.

フェリーは豪湾の海水をかき混ぜ、ランデールからホスシュワンに向かった。

2.Bend the bar into a horseshee .

鉄条を馬蹄形に曲げる。

3.a horseshee bend in the river

河道における馬蹄形の湾曲

4.The blacksmith is forging the horseshee .

鍛冶屋が馬蹄鉄を作っている。

5.The blacksmith shaped a horseshee on his anvil.

鍛冶屋は彼のアンビルに馬蹄形を打った。