horseshoe back

noun

, Furniture.

1. a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.

Example Sentences

“At the peg there. Then pick it up and throw it at this peg. It’s a game, see? You get the horseshoe back.”

From Literature

We were caught out in the severe November northeast storm of 1898 in which over 200 vessels were lost and we did not succeed in reaching a harbour in the "horseshoe" back of Sandy Hook until, of course, in the morning.

From Project Gutenberg

"Why, he was leaning in at the window here, not a minute ago," said I, and, plunging the half-finished horseshoe back into the fire, I stepped out into the road, but the man was nowhere to be seen.

From Project Gutenberg