Definition of "ironshod" [ironshod]

• Shod or cased with iron (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "For though the ironshod dart would draw no blood from them, they with the thyrsus, which they hurled, caused many a wound and put their foes to utter rout, women chasing men, by some god's intervention."
• "He was searching for a wife when he fell into the trap, the cruel ironshod teeth of the device bit deep into the soft part of his leg."
• "So she bought as she was going home, and saw the colliers trailing from the pits, grey-black, distorted, one shoulder higher than the other, slurring their heavy ironshod boots."