sferra.
exhausted horseshoe; the old horseshoe after it is removed from the hoof of a horse
Meaning & usage
exhausted horseshoe; the old horseshoe after it is removed from the hoof of a horse
Various things which are old and worn out or with little value: old rusty knife or sword
Various things which are old and worn out or with little value: rag (tattered piece of clothing)
Various things which are old and worn out or with little value: piece of junk (item of little value)
Various things which are old and worn out or with little value: good-for-nothing (worthless man)
dredge (iron frame attached to a fine net when fishing molluscs)
Where this word comes from
From Vulgar Latin *exferra. By surface analysis, deverbal from sferrare (“to unshoe (a horse)”) + -a. Compare Neapolitan sferra and Sicilian sferra.
inflection of sferrare: third-person singular present indicative
inflection of sferrare: second-person singular imperative
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