rough-shod

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ROUGH-SHOD, adjective ruf'-shod. Shod with shoes armed with points; as a rough-shod horse. [This word is not generally used in America. In New England, instead of rough-shod calked is used.]
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