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unˈshoe, v.
[un-2 4. Cf. OE. an-, on-, unscóᵹian, MDu. ontscoeyen, -scoen (Du. -schoeien), MLG. entschoien, OHG. in(t)scuohôn (MHG. entschuohen, G. -schuhen).]
trans. To remove a shoe or shoes from; to strip or deprive of shoes.
1481Caxton Reynard xix. (Arb.) 45 Whan Isegrym was vnshoed, Tho muste..his wyf lye doun in the grasse [etc.]. 1530Palsgr. 768/2, I unshoo a horse, je deferre. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 767 O Moon-wort! tell us where thou hid'st the Smith, Hammer, and Pincers, thou unshoo'st them with? 1628tr. Mathieu's Powerfull Fav. 1 They are unshod of their high shooes that eleuated them aboue others. 1653Culpepper Eng. Phys. Enlarged (1656) 163 Moon-wort is an herb which they say wil..unshoo such Horses as tread upon it. 1677Gilpin Demonol. i. xiii. 102 They were told..that this did unshoo their Foot, and afflicted them with Thirst and Want. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 197 They were to unshoe themselves. 1868Holme Lee B. Godfrey xliii, Joan unshod her feet.
transf.1852Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. ii. 302/1 To Unshoe a wheel, ôter la bande, les bandes de roue.
b. unshoe-the-horse, the plant moonwort. ? Obs.
1635Swan Spec. M. vi. §4 (1644) 251 The Italians call it Vnshoe-the-horse; because if they tread upon it, they lose their shoes. 1653Culpepper Eng. Phys. Enlarged (1656) 163 Country people that I know, cal it Unshoo the Horse. 1878Dickinson Cumbld. Gloss. 85 Unshoe the horse, I have heard the Botrychium Lunaria plant so called.
Hence unˈshoeing vbl. n.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Dechaussement, an vnshoing. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxii. 95 Gargantua..played..at [the game] the unshoing of the Asse. |