Iron-shod

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a horse, shod with iron horseshoes. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of a wheel or other device, having a protective iron casing or strip. not-comparable

    "And so it happened that before the elephant realized that his new enemy had leaped from his path Tarzan had driven his iron-shod spear from behind the massive shoulder straight into the fierce heart, and the colossal pachyderm had toppled to his death at the feet of the ape-man."

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"And so it happened that before the elephant realized that his new enemy had leaped from his path Tarzan had driven his iron-shod spear from behind the massive shoulder straight into the fierce heart, and the colossal pachyderm had toppled to his death at the feet of the ape-man."

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