Meaning & use
Shoed
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Fitted with shoes or, especially of a horse, fitted with horseshoes; an alternative past tense of "shoe," alongside the more standard "shod."
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The stable hand shoed the horses before the long trail ride.
The children were shoed and dressed before the school bus arrived.
A note on using this word
"Shod" is generally preferred in formal writing, but "shoed" appears regularly in everyday and regional usage, especially outside the specific context of horses.
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