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Shoes   /ʃuz/   Listen
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Shoe  n.  (pl. shoes, formerly shoon, now provincial)  
1.
A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg. "Your hose should be ungartered,... yourshoe untied." "Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon."
2.
Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. Specifically:
(a)
A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.
(b)
A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
(c)
A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
(d)
The part of an automobile or railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
(e)
(Arch.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
(f)
(Milling.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
(g)
An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
(h)
An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
(i)
An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
(j)
(Mach.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper, and gib. Note: Shoe is often used adjectively, or in composition; as, shoe buckle, or shoe-buckle; shoe latchet, or shoe-latchet; shoe leathet, or shoe-leather; shoe string, shoe-string, or shoestring.
3.
The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, esp. for an automobile.
Shoe of an anchor. (Naut.)
(a)
A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive the point of the anchor fluke, used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the vessel when raised or lowered.
(b)
A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground.
Shoe block (Naut.), a block with two sheaves, one above the other, and at right angles to each other.
Shoe bolt, a bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes on sleigh runners.
Shoe pac, a kind of moccasin. See Pac.
Shoe stone, a sharpening stone used by shoemakers and other workers in leather.





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"Shoes" Quotes from Famous Books



... cover back to spring out of bed with a whoop. But a woman in a high cap with ribbons hanging down to her heels, and a dress short enough to show her shoes, stepped into the room and made a courtesy. Her face fell easily into creases when she talked, and gave you the feeling that it was too soft of flesh. Indeed, her eyes were cushioned all around. She spoke and Skenedonk answered her in French. The meaning of every word broke through ...
— Lazarre • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... which produces Indian corn, apples, plums, pears and small fruit. Lead and zinc are mined in the vicinity and shipped from the city in considerable quantities; and among the city's manufactures are shoes, flour and agricultural implements. The municipality owns the water-works, the water supply of which is furnished by artesian wells. De Soto was laid out in 1855 and ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various
... march through the wilderness, it was not with us as with the children of Israel, that our cloathes waxed not old, ours were torn in pieces by the bushes, and hung in strings—few of us had any shoes, but moggasons made of raw skins—many of us without hats—and beards long and visages thin and meager. I thought we much resembled the animals which inhabit New-Spain, called the Ourang-Outang. The French appeared a little surprised at the first sight of us; and had not Colonel Arnold ...
— An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut • Abner Stocking
... inattention, for the milk-pail would that same evening or next morning reveal the fact to Kirsty's watchful eyes. But fortunately for us, in so far as it was well to have an ally against our only enemy, Hawkie's morbid craving was not confined to old shoes. One day when the cattle were feeding close by the manse, she found on the holly-hedge which surrounded it, Mrs. Mitchell's best cap, laid out to bleach in the sun. It was a tempting morsel—more susceptible of mastication than ...
— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald
... cubic and canny, With blue eyes and blue shoes— The Queen of the Blues! As darling a girl as there is in the world— If she'll laugh, skip and jump, And not ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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