Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A past participle of shoe.

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  • verb Past participle of shoe

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  • adjective wearing footgear

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Examples

  • Death showed in van and horse-hoof was shodden with skull of man; nor did they cease from sore smiting till waned the day and the night came on in black array, when they drew apart and, returning to their tents, passed the night there.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash staff before me, shodden at the end with iron.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • At first the rain made no impression on the bulk of snow, but ran from every sloping surface and froze on every flat one, through the coldness of the earth; and so it became impossible for any man to keep his legs without the help of a shodden staff.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Through the sparkling breadth of white, which seemed to glance my eyes away, and outside the humps of laden trees, bowing their backs like a woodman, I contrived to get along, half-sliding and half-walking, in places where a plain-shodden man must have sunk, and waited freezing till the thaw should come to him.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Some of us went thither after a time, when our horses were shodden and rasped, for although we might not like the man, we might be glad of his tidings, which seemed to be something wonderful.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • But here we are forbidden to walk shodden over sacred ground and details of the cruise must be confined to generalities; otherwise the travels of the celebrated Gulliver would be eclipsed, Baron Munchausen lose his claim to veracity, and the shade of the venerable Miller slink back to its original punishment.

    Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay

  • It is the place of honour and has a peculiar sanctity among the Arabs, it being a breach of good manners to tread upon it (or indeed upon any part of the carpet) with shodden feet.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

  • Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash-staff before me, shodden at the end with iron.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Some of us went thither after a time, when our horses were shodden and rasped, for although we might not like the man, we might be glad of his tidings, which seemed to be something wonderful.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

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