Definition of shoe

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Shoe (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.

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Slipper :: Slipper (n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
Farriery :: Farriery (n.) The art of shoeing horses.
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..
Hobnailed :: Hobnailed (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe..
Discalceate :: Discalceate (v. t.) To pull off shoes or sandals from.
Insabbatati :: Insabbatati (n. pl.) The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiary cut or marked sabots, or shoes..
Cobble :: Cobble (v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes..
Sychnocarpous :: Sycee (n.) Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy..
Lapstone :: Lapstone (n.) A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather..
Cordwainer :: Cordwainer (n.) A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker..
Slipper :: Slipper (n.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib..
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..
Start-up :: Start-up (n.) A kind of high rustic shoe.
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..
Shoeing :: Shoeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sho.
Crimper :: Crimper (n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
Sabot :: Sabot (n.) A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries..
Rubber :: Rubber (n.) An overshoe made of India rubber.
Brogan :: Brogan (n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue..
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..
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