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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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"Shoe" Quotes from Famous Books

... three men had silently pocketed what was allotted to each, Quintana pushed curiously at the dead man with the toe of his shoe. ...

— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers

... was, during the first year of the new life in this house, that Frank met a certain Mrs. Semple, who interested him greatly. Her husband had a pretentious shoe store on Chestnut Street, near Third, and was planning to open a second one farther out ...

— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser

... so, Monsieur de Laval?' asked the Emperor. He had halted for a moment by the fire, and was grinding his dainty gold-buckled shoe into one ...

— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle

... organs, and an exquisite elation, as though we were walking on shining air, or winging through celestial space, fills all our being. The material earth and our material selves seem to grow joyously transparent, and while we are conscious of our earthly shoe-leather ringing out on the iron-bound highway, we seem, nevertheless, to be spirits moving without effort, in a world of spirit. Seldom, if ever, in summer are we thus made conscious of, so to say, our own ghosts, thus lifted up out of our material ...

— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne

... know what Massa do; He take him long to brack him shoe, To brack him shoe and tote him gun, When he am 'way to Washington. Oh! Massa's gwine to Washington, So clar de way to Washington, Oh! long afore de mornin' sun Ole Massa's ...

— Among the Pines - or, South in Secession Time • James R. Gilmore

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