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HORSE SHOE [14 records]

Record 1 2018-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

A special oval-shaped horseshoe designed to help problem hooves.

CONT

Unlike standard shoes, the egg-bar shoe provides support beneath the heel, which is especially beneficial when a horse has navicular disease, collapsed heels, underrun hooves, and flat soles.... Egg-bar shoes are also used to give more support on soft ground. However, if your horse is wearing these shoes, do not turn him out into a muddy area. Mud, manure, straw and other debris easily collect inside the egg-bar shoe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
CONT

On a heel of a shoe, [the spoon] extends upward and cover the heel, fitted closely it might prevent the horse from pulling the shoe while overreaching.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
CONT

Sur l'éponge d'un fer, [la coquille] remonte en suivant la forme du talon et peut limiter les problèmes d'arrachage de fer lorsque le cheval s'atteint en talons.

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
PHR

Shoe a horse

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
PHR

Ferrer un cheval

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
DEF

Poner herraduras a una caballería.

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Record 4 2006-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

An extra long toe extension shoe to prevent the horse from walking on the front of the hoof wall.

OBS

The metal may be bent back to prevent injury.

CONT

The Dallmer Club foot shoe and it’s extended toe section is the equivalent of a beaked horseshoe and is designed to correct club foot in foals without using nails.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

[Fer dont] la pince est prolongée, épaisse et recourbée vers le haut...

OBS

... il est aussi souvent souhaitable d'enrouler le devant afin d'éviter les blessures qu'il pourrait infliger. Ce fer est parfois décrit de façon très similaire au fer pinçard.

Spanish

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Record 5 2005-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

The swedge is sometimes presented as a wide and deep indentation in the shoe.

CONT

... the whole shoe is heated, and a groove or "fuller" cut in the ground surface by the fullering iron. The fuller allows the heads of the nails to be slightly counter-sunk below the surface of the shoe, and gives the horse an extra grip on slippery surfaces, as well as tending to prevent the shoe from being sucked loose, or even coming off, when the horse travels over wet clay land.

Key term(s)
  • fullering
  • swedging

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
CONT

Située à la face inférieure du fer, la cannelure est la rainure au fond de laquelle sont placées les étampures (but: empêcher la tête des clous de trop dépasser la face inférieure du fer);

OBS

On y fait les étampures et elle empêche la tête du clou de trop dépasser. On lui attribue aussi d'autres utilités.

Key term(s)
  • rainure

Spanish

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Record 6 2005-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
CONT

The Easy Boot is the ultimate in hoof protection and one of the most important items you should carry with you on any ride. [You can] prevent lameness and frustration when you lose a shoe far from home and still finish your ride without compromising the health and safety of your horse. Easy Boots can also be worn in place of steel shoes or even over steel shoes for additional protection, traction and cushioning on rocks and hard ground. These boots are ideal for horses with laminitis, founder, abscesses and other hoof-related medical problems. Made from durable urethane and in sizes to fit most horses, these boots will outlast any steel shoe!

CONT

Easy Boot. Sturdy, one-piece construction protects hoof while riding, trailering or in the stall. Protects hoof injuries or can be used as a quick replacement shoe. Light-weight boots are constructed with tough urethane for protection and traction on rocks, ice, snow or pavement.

CONT

Carrying a pair of Easy Boots or Boa Boots can help prevent injury to your horse’s hoof if it throws a shoe and you still have a long way to ride.

Key term(s)
  • easy boot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
CONT

Les Romains utilisaient l'hipposandale: des lanières de cuir maintenaient en place des plaques métalliques dont les bords étaient relevés de façon à épouser les bords du sabot du cheval.

CONT

Les hipposandales ont été développés depuis l'Antiquité en paralèlle avec le développement du revêtement des voies de communications. Elles étaient obligatoires pour les chevaux des légions de la fin de l'Empire romain. [...] Actuellement elles reviennent en force soit comme alternative intégrale à la ferrure, soit comme complément ou remplacement en cas de perte d'un fer ou de blessure à une sole.

CONT

Hipposandale en fer. Véritable chaussure enveloppante pour les sabots des chevaux, cet accessoire n'était sans doute utilisé que dans des cas particuliers, pour protéger les sabots blessés ou pour traverser des terrains caillouteux.

Key term(s)
  • hippo-sandale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo y accesorios deportivos
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 7 2004-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Care Equipment (Farm equipment)
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

A tool used to knock a clench down when removing a shoe.

OBS

Finally, the edge of the rasp is rubbed around the junction between the lower border of the horn and the(horse) shoe, so as to form a slight groove, which prevents the edge of the wall from splitting, and shoeing is complete.

OBS

One of its parts is the blade (to cut or raise clinches) and the other the point (to punch nails out of the hoof, etc.)

OBS

Although "hoof buffer" was not found in the documentation available, Chochrane Showhorse Ferrier in Richmond, Ont. stated that this was a file or rasp.

OBS

Clinch (clench): The part of a horseshoe nail visible on the outside of a shod horse’s hoof.

OBS

You will hear the term clinch buffer used for the clinch cutter and sometimes cutting them is called buffing the clinch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soins aux animaux (Matériel agricole)
  • Élevage des chevaux
OBS

Après avoir broché les fers, le maréchal termine son travail par un coup de râpe égalisateur.

OBS

Une de ses extrémités est appelée dérivoir (pour couper ou relever la partie rivée des clous sur le sabot) et l'autre chasse-souche (qui peut servir, entre autres, pour chasser les clous du sabot).

PHR

Râpe pour maréchal-ferrant; râpe pour maréchalerie.

Spanish

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Record 8 2004-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

Borium consists of tungsten carbide chunks in a brass matrix.... The borium should be applied in a thin single layer(not more than 1/8” thick) for the main purpose of protecting the shoe from wear.... Borium is also very effective for riding on ice and other slick surfaces such as parking lots coated with blacktop sealer! Because borium affords the shoe some traction, it is advisable that a horse not used to borium shoes be ridden on soft surfaces before riding on hard, unforgiving surfaces so as not to cause leg injuries.

CONT

This same shoe, properly coated with borium, will last one year of pavement travel!

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Corps simple, métalloïde dur et noirâtre, se rapprochant du carbone.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo y accesorios deportivos
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
DEF

Acero soldado al canal de la herradura para mejorar agarre.

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Record 9 2004-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
OBS

Back-punching a nail hole is done from the foot surface of a [horse] shoe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
OBS

[On] contre-perce le trou d'un clou à partir de la face supérieure du fer.

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Hardware
  • Horse Husbandry
OBS

Sometimes called shoe pullers, they were used to pull off old horse or mule shoes after they were loosened with a hammer and a clinch cutter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Quincaillerie générale
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Genre de grosse tenaille utilisée en maréchalerie pour fixer et couper les clous destinés à maintenir le fer.

Spanish

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Record 11 1993-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dams and Causeways
DEF

A movable dam, consisting of a water curtain formed by timber leaves or wickets inclined downstream; the butt of the wicket is supported against a sill along the upstream side of the base slab and the wicket is pivoted a little below its center point to a collapsible horse held in place by a long prop.

CONT

Chanoine Wicket-dam.... The term "wicket" has been applied in the United States to a shutter revolving on an axle placed near its needle. Described in detail, a Chanoine wicket consists of three parts... : A rectangular panel of wood or iron; the horse or trestle, supporting the axle of the shutter, and the prop holding up the horse and having its foot bearing against a cast-iron shoe, called a "hurter"(in French "heurtoir") fixed to the apron. The parts of the shutter above and below the axle are called respectively the "chase" and the "breech".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Barrages et chaussées
DEF

Barrage mobile constitué d'un rideau étanche en bois, incliné vers l'aval et s'articulant à un chevalet et à un arc-boutant, ce dernier prenant appui contre un heurtoir fixé au radier.

CONT

Initialement, les ingénieurs américains ont construit 52 barrages sur ... l'Ohio. Ils étaient équipés de hausses Chanoine (ou plutôt de hausses Pascaud, système très voisin dont le prototype a été réalisé en 1880 sur la Saône, près de son confluent avec le Rhône.

OBS

Aux USA, les hausses Chanoine munies de la glissière Pasqueau sont désignées sous le nom de hausses Chanoine [Chanoine wicket], que l'on trouvera seul dans la littérature américaine...

Spanish

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Record 12 1990-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

A calk on the toe of the shoe of a horse or ox.

OBS

Calkin : one of a pair of projections on the underside of a horseshoe, usually made by doubling the ends over, to provide grip and prevent the horse ... from slipping, or to raise the heel of a horse that has faulty conformation or is inclined to forge. Also caulkin; also called calk.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
OBS

Crampon : Petites pièces d'acier en forme de cube ou de pyramide tronquée, vissées dans les mortaises des fers pour éviter au cheval de glisser.

OBS

Pince : Partie antérieure du fer à cheval.

Spanish

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Record 13 1990-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

Hamilton is the hub of the Golden Horse Shoe.

CONT

The hub of the universe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 14 1977-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

Class of Arthropods including eurypterids and horse shoe crabs. Cambrian-Recent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

(...) Arthropode aquatique ne possédant qu'une seule paire d'antennes parfois transformées en pinces.

Spanish

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