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Ox-shoe.

Among the Orientals oxen to be shod are thrown, and their four feet drawn up into a bunch by cords. The animal being then helpless, the operation is completed at leisure.

An ox-shoe consists of a flat piece of iron with five or six holes near its outer margin to receive as many flat-headed nails, whereby it is secured to the hoof. The shoe b represented has a projecting flap, which is bent into the cleft of the foot and flattened up against the inside of the hoof, to assist in keeping the shoe in place. This projection is not always employed. c d are also forms of ox-shoes.

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