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Schoing, -yng, vbl. n. Also: schoying, s(c)how(e)-, schou-, shoe-, shoo-, schew- and -in, -yn. [Late ME schoynge (Prompt. Parv.); S(c)ho v.]

1. The action of ‘shoeing’, in senses of S(c)ho v.As, putting shoes on a horse, fitting of protective edges or tips to artefacts, esp. wheels.(1) 1478 Acts II 119/2.
Becaus that ignorant smethis … spillis & crukis mennis hors throw schoyn in the quyk Ib.
Gif the hors crukis throw the schoying, & will nocht heile [etc.] 1501 Treas. Acc. II 123.
In payment of the hors schoing xxviij s. 1505 Ib. III 171.
For schoing of the kingis thre staggis vj s. 1508 Ib. IV 138.
To Robert Galloway for schoing of the kingis hors-schoing 1513 Ib. 518.
For the schoing of x[j] werk hors … ilk hors schoying xvj d. 1538 Ib. VI 404.
For schoing of mulis 1579 Reg. Privy S. VII 334/2.
Oure soverane lordis smith for schoing of his majesteis horsis 1621 Perth Kirk S. MS 10 Dec.
Accuseit for breking of the saboth day in schoing of hors 1658 Rothesay B. Rec. 275.
James Logane hammerman to be thair townes smithe … and … sall have payit to him … tuentie pennyis for the shooing of the gang of horse schoone the horse belonging to the townesmen, they furnishing schoone and naills themselffis 1661 Old Ross-shire I 151.
Schewing 1676 Cunningham Diary 86.
Horse furniture & shooing, £20 15 s. 10 d. 1680 Fawside Coal Compt 59.
For my panwood hors shoeing(2) 1513 Treas. Acc. IV 513.
For the schoyng of xx pair of greit quhelis ilk pair x s. 1515 Ib. V 38.
The schowing of the gun cartis Ib. 42.
To Johne Kile, smytht, for his labouris maid in the helping of the schouing of the gret gun quhelis 1529 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 6.
For the schoyng and buschyng of the samyn quhelis 1557–8 Edinb. Old Acc. I 256.
xij stane of irn werk till thir twa slangs with the schoing of thair tumlaris to thame 1563 Dumfries B. Ct. fol. 237.
The schoing of ane fork 1569 Treas. Acc. XII 177.
For making of certane irne werk to the munitioun … and for grathing and schoing of the stokis and quhelis thairof 1683 Fawside Coal Compt 117.
For my uhills shoeing £2 8 s.

b. attrib.Schouing horne, = Scho-horn n. [Cf. late ME and e.m.E. schoynge horne (Prompt. Parv.).](1) 1522 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 209.
Ane langsadill a schoving horne ane chair 1625 Brechin Test. IV 219b.
Robert Ramsay cordiner. Tua dussoun lastis tua schewin ironis tua stockis(2) 1537–8 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 217.
To the schoing of twa pair gret cart quhelis in schoing nalis dowlstraikis [etc.] 1568 Edinb. Test. I 225.
Ane gang of schoing lomes price ten s. 1697 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II 825.
A stane of shoeing warklums att the discusing of his said prentiship [sc. as a smith]

2. Protective casing (for a wheel). 1645 Tulliallan Coal Wks. 146b.
40 portith dealls for to meak showeing to the water quhill