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Definition of Ironshod
1. Adjective. Shod or cased with iron. "Ironshod wheels"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ironshod
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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