Definition of Shoe

Shoe

The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, esp. for an automobile.

A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.

Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.

A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.

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 railroad car brake 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.

The trough or spout for conveying the 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.

To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor.

To protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip.

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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles Spurgeon

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
Kanye West

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.
Diane Lane

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
Publilius Syrus