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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Cocker :: Cocker (n.) A rustic high shoe or half-boots.
Hobnail :: Hobnail (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes..
Shoeing-horn :: Shoeing-horn (n.) Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
Start-up :: Start-up (n.) A kind of high rustic shoe.
Barefoot :: Barefoot (a. & adv.) With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
Repair :: Repair (v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune..
Blacking :: Blacking (n.) Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves..
Crispin :: Crispin (n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
Sole :: Sole (n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom..
Old :: Old (superl.) Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes..
Peg :: Peg (n.) A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg..
Remove :: Remove (n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
Vamp :: Vamp (v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up..
Latchet :: Latchet (n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.
Excalceation :: Excalceation (n.) The act of depriving or divesting of shoes.
Galoshe :: Galoshe () Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather.
Welt :: Welt (n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole..
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..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
Hobnail :: Hobnail (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes..
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