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SHOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shod mean?
• SHOD (adjective)
The adjective SHOD has 2 senses:
2. used of certain religious orders who wear shoes
Familiarity information: SHOD used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wearing footgear
Synonyms:
Similar:
booted (wearing boots)
ironshod (shod or cased with iron)
roughshod ((of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping)
sandaled; sandalled (shod with sandals)
slippered (shod with slippers)
Antonym:
unshod (not shod)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of certain religious orders who wear shoes
Synonyms:
calced; shod
Context examples
Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Come, Alleyne, we may catch him ere John's horse be shod.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
This fellow Hayes had shod his horses with shoes which counterfeited the tracks of cows.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Walk home!—you are prettily shod for walking home, I dare say.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Alleyne, however, as active as a young deer-hound, sprang to her aid and seized her by the other arm, raising his iron-shod staff as he did so.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Old shoes, but newly shod—old shoes, but new nails.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In one hand he grasped a thick staff pointed and shod with metal, while in the other he held his coif or bonnet, which bore in its front a broad pewter medal stamped with the image of Our Lady of Rocamadour.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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