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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. Related Definitions: Adjustment, Afford, Also, An, Anchor, And, Animal, Any, Anything, As, At, Automobile, Band, Between, Boot, Bottom, Brake, Building, Called, Car, Coming, Conveying, Cover, Covering, Defend, Down, Drag, Eaves, Extending, Eye, Far, Fastened, Foot, For, Form, From, Furnish, Gib, Going, Grain, Gutter, Having, Hill, Hoof, Hopper, Horse, Human, In, Inclined, Injury, Interposed, Iron, It, Leader, Leather, Leg, Lighter, Loaded, Made, Member, Mill, Millstone, Motion, Moving, Nailed, Not, Notched, Of, Off, On, Or, Ornament, Outer, Part, Piece, Pile, Placed, Plate, Pneumatic, Point, Position, Protect, Purpose, Put, Rafter, Railroad, Resembling, Retard, Rim, Runner, Ship, Shoe, Shoes, Sled, Sleigh, Sliding, Slipper, Snow, So, Socket, Sole, Something, Somewhat, Spout, Stationary, Steel, Stiff, Strut, Take, The, Thick, Throw, Thrust, Tip, Tire, To, Top, Tread, Trough, Under, Up, Upon, Use, Vehicle, Water, Wear, Wheel, Which, With, Wood, Wooden

Shoe Quotations It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. Publilius Syrus Well, judges take offense to that if they're called an activist judge. But the fact of the matter is if the shoe fits, you've got to put it on. There are judges that do that. Judge M. Lane If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? Gloria Steinem 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

Shoe Translations shoe in Afrikaans is skoen shoe in Danish is sko shoe in Dutch is schoen shoe in French is chaussure, croquenot, soulier shoe in German is Schuh shoe in Italian is scarpa shoe in Norwegian is sko shoe in Portuguese is sapato, sapata shoe in Spanish is zapatillo, zapato shoe in Swedish is sko

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