unshoe
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unshoe
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From Middle English unshon, from Old English onscōgan (“to unshoe”), equivalent to un- + shoe.
verb unshoes · unshoeing · unshoed · unshod
- to remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from. With plants of the kind we may compare the wonder-working moonwort (Botrychium lunaria), which was said to open locks and to unshoe horses that trod on it, a notion which Du Bartas thus mentions in his "Divine Weekes" – "Horses that, feeding on the grassy hills, Tread upon moonwort with their hollow
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title = {unshoe},
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