Roughshod

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roughshod \Rough"shod\, a.
     Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod
     horse.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {To ride roughshod}, to pursue a course regardless of the


        pain or distress it may cause others.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  roughshod
       adj 1: (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to
              prevent slipping
       2: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict
          pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings";
          "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the
          kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: {barbarous},
           {brutal}, {cruel}, {fell}, {savage}, {vicious}]
       3: unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's
          heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who
          rode roughshod over all opposition" [syn: {heavy-handed}]