Sekirov Dictionary

shoe

/ˈʃuː/

noun 18
verb 3
forms 8
phrases 5

noun18

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a strong covering for the foot with a hard bottom, which does not reach up the leg
- Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
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A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
- Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.
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Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
- Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.
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.
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.
The part of a brake for a wheeled vehicle which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
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.
A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
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.
Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
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(historical) An ingot of gold or silver shaped somewhat like a traditional Chinese shoe, formerly used in trade in the Far East.
- The finest gold among them is 100 touch, called Sycee, i. e. pure gold without alloy: so that if a shoe of gold touch 93, then it hath 93 parts of fine gold and 7 parts alloy. — 1806
The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
(slang) A pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
(slang) A fake passport.

verb3

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To put shoes on one's own feet.
- Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.
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To put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.
- "Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand." — 1874
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To cover an object with a protective layer of material.
- The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.

forms

shod · shoed · shodden · shoeing · shoes · shoeth · shoen · shoon

Phrases with shoe

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