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Definition shoe

Etymology

From Middle English sho, shoo, from Old English s??h (“shoe”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?haz (“shoe", literally "covering”) (compare Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish sko), from Proto-Indo-European *skewk- (compare Tocharian B sk?k (“balcony”)), from *(s)kew- (“to cover”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabat?num, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabat?, Spanish zapato (“shoe”)).

The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English sc?n, sc?um (“shoes”, dative plural) and sc?na (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoon”).

Noun

shoe (plural shoes or (archaic or regional) shoon)

  1. A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
  2. A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
  3. (card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
  4. Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
    4. (architecture) 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.
    5. A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
    6. An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
    7. An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
    8. An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
    9. (engineering) 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.
    10. Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
  5. The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.

Verb

shoe (third-person singular simple present shoes, present participle shoeing, simple past shod or shoed, past participle shodden or shod or shoed)

  1. To put shoes on one's feet.
  2. To put horseshoes on a horse.
  3. To equip an object with a protection against wear.

Results 418 Words with the letters SHOE

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CHOSE 10
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HOMES 10
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HOWES 10
OKEHS 11
SHOVE 11
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