Definition of shoe

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Shoe (n.) 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..

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Runner :: Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water..
Esparto :: Esparto (n.) A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper..
Gaiter :: Gaiter (n.) A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle..
Enerlasting :: Enerlasting (n.) A cloth fabic for shoes, etc. See Lasting..
Retract :: Retract (n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Barefoot :: Barefoot (a. & adv.) With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) 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..
Phylactolaemata :: Phylactolaemata (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians..
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it..
Farrier :: Farrier (n.) A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
Insabbatati :: Insabbatati (n. pl.) The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiary cut or marked sabots, or shoes..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
Mat :: Mat (n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes..
Snowshoe :: Snowshoe (n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow..
Shoeing-horn :: Shoeing-horn (n.) A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe..
Shod :: Shod (imp. & p. p.) f Shoe.
Hobnail :: Hobnail (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes..
Galoshe :: Galoshe () Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather.
Skate :: Skate (n.) A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice..
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