▪ I. shod, n. Sc. and north.
(ʃɒd)
[f. shod ppl. a.]
1. A plate of iron fastened upon the heel of a shoe to protect it from wear; a heel-tip; more fully heel-shod.
| c 1840 in A. Trotter E. Galloway Sk. (1901) 102/1 There's a' things in the Jangle Box, Brass, airn, and tin, and shods o' shoon. 1912 A. M{supc}Cormick Words from Wild Wood viii. 128 He had never seen heel shods like them. |
2. A skid in the form of a shoe; = shoe n. 5 f.
| 1893 Crockett Stickit Minister 198 The great iron curved shods which the lorrymen used to stop their coal waggons on the steep streets. |
▪ II. shod, ppl. a.
(ʃɒd)
For forms see the vb. See also shoed.
[pa. pple. of shoe v.]
1. Wearing shoes. Chiefly with qualifying adv., well, neatly, etc. Also dry-shod, high-shod, slipshod adjs.
| 1382 Wyclif Isa. xi. 15 So that thei passe thurȝ hym shod men [1388 schood men]. c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame i. 98 Dreme he barefote, dreme he shod [Caxton, Thynne shood]. c 1400 Rom. Rose 7463 And alle freres, shodde and bare. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 447/2 Schod, as men, calceatus. Schod, as hors, ferratus. 1537 in Brand Hist. Newcastle (1789) I. 129 note, The Blake-Friers otherwise called the Shode Freers. 1782 Cowper Gilpin 82 But, finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet. 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop v, A pair of very imperfectly shod feet. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. i, Neatly shod feet. |
2. a. Of things: Furnished with a shoe of metal, etc.; tipped, edged, or sheathed with metal. † shod shovel: see shovel n.
| 1565 Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Aeratus, Pila ærata, shadde [sic] or poynted with brasse. 1578 Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 134 A shod dunge forke. 1840 J. Rowand Let. 8 July in G. P. de T. Glazebrook Hargrave Corr. (1938) 317 A couple of blood Indians got afighting..which ended by driving two shod arrows through one fellows body. 1903 Kipling Five Nations 39 Where a man may bask and dream To the click of shod canoe-poles. |
b. Of cart wheels: Furnished with tyres. Hence of a cart: Having ‘shod’ wheels. Of a motor vehicle: having tyres of a certain quality, as well shod. Cf. shoe v. 2.
| 1481 City Letter Bk. L. 163 b, No shod cart laden be suffred to passe over the said Brigge. 1535 in Archæol. Cant. VII. 304, j pece of shoyd whelys, the other onshoyd. 1563 Bottesford Manor Rec. in N.W. Linc. Gloss., A shod⁓wayne or carte. 1631 Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 516 Diuers great Nailes of Iron were there found, such as are vsed in the wheeles of shod carts. 1728 Act 1 Geo. II, Stat. ii. c. 22 §3 The Duty..on Shod Carts, payable to the said City [of Edinburgh]. 1831 J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 157 Wheels, considerably increased in breadth on their shod surface,..are not uncommon. 1967 Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1356/1 Shod. ‘Colloquially applied to motor vehicles. A car with good tyres is described as ‘well shod’ (B.P.): Australian: since ca. 1945. 1977 Horse & Hound 14 Jan. 44/2 (Advt.), Bedford T.K. diesel, 1964, horse/cattle box... Well shod. |
▪ III. shod
see shud dial., shed.