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Shoe   /ʃu/   Listen
Shoe

noun
(pl. shoes, formerly shoon, now provincial)
1.
Footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material.
2.
(card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time.
3.
U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof.  Synonym: horseshoe.
4.
A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation.  Synonyms: brake shoe, skid.
verb
(past & past part. shod; pres. part. shoeing)
1.
Furnish with shoes.



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"Shoe" Quotes from Famous Books



... buckle my shoe; Three, four, shut the door; Five, six, pick up sticks; Seven, eight, lay them straight; Nine, ten, a good fat hen; Eleven, twelve, who will delve? Thirteen, fourteen, draw the curtain; Fifteen, sixteen, the maid's ...
— Harry's Ladder to Learning - Horn-Book, Picture-Book, Nursery Songs, Nursery Tales, - Harry's Simple Stories, Country Walks • Anonymous

... pleasure in visions untidy, A wrapper all hole-y, a buttonless shoe, A slatternly matron with nothing to do; And all the ill-luck charged to ominous Friday Can never compare with the ills that ensue On wretched ...
— Poems - Vol. IV • Hattie Howard

... horses," Hawkins said abruptly. "That there is the girl's horse, all right—there's a hind shoe missing. We saw where her horse had cast a shoe, coming over Juniper Ridge. But ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower

... like you say, suh," replied the other, readily; "and you showed me how I could tell that shoe again any time, and under any conditions; foh it had a home-made patch on the sole, running crisscross from side to side," and he made the figure with his finger ...
— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter

... had not been sure of that she would not have taken off her left shoe to shake out some tiny thing that had got into it and that annoyed her. It turned out to be a bit of pine-needle. It was pleasant to feel her foot freed from the hot leather and resting on the thick moss, and so ...
— Whosoever Shall Offend • F. Marion Crawford


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