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Shoes

noun

A particular situation. Synonym: place.

Shoe

noun

(pl. shoes, formerly shoon, now provincial)

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.

(card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time.

U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof. Synonym: horseshoe.

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)

Furnish with shoes.

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... in her small and over-furnished living-room in a state of open-eyed amazement. Only five minutes before she had left the room to look for a pair of shoes whose easiness was their sole reason for survival, and as a last hope had looked under Cecilia's bed, and discovered the parcels. Three parcels all done up in brown paper and ready for the post, addressed in ...

— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs

... the door, not stopping to lace his shoes, and called Miss Vost. She had heard the excitement, and was dressing. The floor lurched again, and he was thrown violently against ...

— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts

... processing, cement, shoes, sawn logs, refrigerators, furniture, electric motors, gold, rare ...

— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... enough to state that the footmark, so to speak, of a glacier is just as easily recognizable as the trail of any well-known animal; and that with as much confidence as we should feel in asserting that a horse had passed along a soft road which yet retained the prints of its shoes, it may be concluded that the glaciers of the Alps had once triple or quadruple the extent that they have now; so that not only the banks of inferior mountains were once covered with sheets of ice, but even the great valley of the Rhone itself was the bed of an enormous "Mer de ...

— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

... you are a gentleman of rank and fortune, and I am a poor devil; you are a feather in the cap of society, and I am a very hobnail in his shoes; yet I have the honour to belong to the same family with you, and on that score I now address you. You will perhaps suspect that I am going to claim affinity with the ancient and honourable house of Kirkpatrick. No, no, Sir. I cannot indeed be properly said to belong to any house, or ...

— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

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