herradura

Updated: June 14, 2025

That is the application of the Spanish proverb: herradura que chacolotea clavo le falta a clattering hoof means a nail gone.

Arthur Schopenhauer - The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims

On receiving this information, I ordered Mr Randal, my second lieutenant, with twenty five men, to go in the Mercury, which name we gave to the captured flour bark, and, accompanied by the Spanish boatswain of the other prize, to go in search of the vessel in the Bay of Herradura, with positive orders not to land or to make any other hazardous attempt.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 : Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.