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horseshoe
noun(horse-shoe)
a usually U-shaped band of iron fitted and nailed to the rim of a horse's hoof to protect it
horseshoe
noun(horse-shoe)
something (such as a valley) shaped like a horseshoe
horseshoe
noun(horse-shoe)
a game like quoits played with horseshoes or with horseshoe-shaped pieces of metal
horseshoe
noun(horse-shoe)
an arch having an intrados that widens above the springing before narrowing to a rounded or pointed crown
horseshoe
noun(horse-shoe)
any of several closely related marine arthropods (order Xiphosura and class Merostomata) with a broad crescentic cephalothorax, six pairs of legs, and a spikelike tail; especially : one (Limulus polyphemus) of coastal waters from Maine to the Yucatán Peninsula —called also king crab
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geographical name(horse-shoe)
curve of railroad track just west of Altoona in south central Pennsylvania designed to enable rail cars to cross the Allegheny Mountains at a manageable incline; 2375 feet (724 meters) long with a 220 degree change of direction; completed in 1854
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geographical name(horse-shoe)
waterfalls in the Niagara River (36 miles or 58 kilometers long flowing from Lake Erie north into Lake Ontario) on the border between the U.S. (New York state) and Canada (the province of Ontario)
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geographical name(horse-shoe)
city in western New York at the falls population 50,193
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geographical name(horse-shoe)
city in southeastern Ontario, Canada, at the falls population 82,997

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