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the only piece of luck you'll find by nailing it to something.
means A U-shaped band of metal nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it, and by extension the same shape used as a good-luck charm or in the throwing game of the same name.
from A plain compound of two old Germanic words: 'horse' (Old English 'hors') and 'shoe' (Old English 'scoh'), the latter from a Proto-Germanic root meaning a covering for the foot. The thing itself spread across Europe in the early medieval period as iron-working improved, and the lucky reputation likely grew from iron being thought to ward off evil — though the charming rule about pointing the ends up to 'hold the luck' is folklore layered on much later.
- open up
- Hung points-down lets all the luck spill out
- iron age
- Romans tied leather hipposandals on hooves first
- close enough
- In its own game, nearly is worth points
- heavy metal
- A draft horse shoe can weigh five pounds
- magnetic myth
- The lucky shape inspired the first U-magnets
horseshoe bend — 307-meter cliff-edged meander of colorado river near page, arizona, created over millions of years
horseshoe falls — largest of three niagara falls waterfalls, 188 feet high, horseshoe-shaped cataract between canada and usa
horseshoe lake state park — oxbow lake in illinois formed from mississippi river meander, 2,400 acres in pope county