Definition of shoe

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Shoe (n.) 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..

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Cobbler :: Cobbler (n.) A mender of shoes.
Sock :: Sock (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin..
Skid :: Skid (n.) A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc..
Gaiter :: Gaiter (n.) A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches..
Moccasin :: Moccasin (n.) A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians..
Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
Sole :: Sole (n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom..
Shoeing :: Shoeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sho.
Unlace :: Unlace (v. t.) To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe..
Hippocrepian :: Hippocrepian (n.) One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
Poecilopoda :: Poecilopoda (n. pl.) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea)..
Oxshoe :: Oxshoe (n.) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof..
Shoemaker :: Shoemaker (n.) The runner, 12..
Last :: Last (v. i.) A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed..
Latchet :: Latchet (n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.
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