Crossword clues for shoe
shoe
- Nailed to underside of horse's hoof
- Ghillie or secque
- Oxford
- Tire
- There may be a spat about it
- Secque or sollaret
- Do a farrier's job
- Ghillie or sollaret
- Ghillie, e.g.
- Pump or clog
- Brogan or brogue
- Brogan or sabot
- Flat or pump
- Crispin's product
- Clog or ghillie
- Kind of shine
- Saddle or loafer
- Oxford or pump
- Brogue or buck
- Chaplin ate one
- Ghillie or solleret
- Brogan or ghillie
- Sole protector
- Florsheim product
- Oxford, for one
- Jeff MacNelly comic strip
- Cobbler's product
- "For want of a ___ . . . "
- Part of an auto tire
- Sabot
- Brogan
- Homophone for order to a fly
- Loafer
- Espadrille, e.g.
- " . . . buckle my ___"
- Home in a nursery rhyme
- Third-rail contact
- Sabot or brogan
- Galosh, e.g.
- Hoof wear
- Pump or gillie
- Word with lace or tree
- Sabot or brogue
- Cordwainery product
- Brogan or oxford
- Anile person's home
- Sabot or clog
- Clog
- Tire part
- Word with horn or string
- Old woman's home
- Loafer that should be stepped on
- Galosh
- Cordwainer's creation
- Word with tree or horn
- Sabot or sabotine
- Nursery-rhyme abode
- Wing tip or pump
- Certain old-woman's home
- Brogue
- Old woman's abode
- Balmoral, e.g.
- Ghillie or wingtip
- Footwear
- Buskin or brogan
- Secque or brogue
- Moccasin
- Kind of horn
- Kind of tree
- Horn or string
- One of the "proud" items in a Murray book
- Tree locale
- Cramped Mother Goose dwelling
- Sole possessor?
- Oxford, e.g.
- Some people take a shine to it
- Nursery rhyme residence
- Camera device
- Last wrapper
- Pump, e.g.
- Last item
- Part of a brake
- Tongue's locale
- It's about a foot
- Tongue locale
- Sneaker, e.g.
- Word with strings or horns
- Brake part
- High heel, e.g.
- Jeff MacNelly comic
- Wing tip, e.g.
- It may contain a tree
- *Blacksmith ... Mother Goose ... tongue
- Pump
- Loafer, e.g.
- Place for a tap
- Pedal pusher
- One that gets tongue-tied?
- Tongue site
- Place for a horn
- Dealing box, in blackjack
- Sole supporter?
- Clog or pump
- Tongue-tied one?
- Mule or clog
- What a cobbler works on
- Last thing
- Monopoly token
- Something fit to be tied?
- Old woman's home in a nursery rhyme
- Mule, e.g.
- Something sold in half sizes
- Hoof protector
- Home for an "old woman" in a nursery rhyme
- Loafer, for one
- Brogue, e.g.
- Khrushchev's impromptu gavel
- Place to put a tap
- Clog, e.g.
- One going on foot?
- Do some blacksmith's work on
- Wingtip or wedge
- It's a little longer than a foot
- Home for a certain old woman
- Pump or loafer
- Oxford or loafer
- It has a silent tongue
- What's under an arch
- Item depicted by this puzzle's circled letters
- It may be on the tip of the tongue
- Last place?
- Nursery rhyme dwelling
- Brake plate
- Clodhopper, e.g.
- There might be a spat about this
- Flat, e.g.
- One going everywhere on foot?
- Wedge or pump
- Person whose work shines
- 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
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slipper \Slip"per\, n.
One who, or that which, slips.
A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
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(Mach.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.
Slipper animalcule (Zo["o]l.), a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium.
Slipper flower.(Bot.) Slipperwort.
Slipper limpet, or Slipper shell (Zo["o]l.), a boat shell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scoh "shoe," from Proto-Germanic *skokhaz (cognates: Old Norse skor, Danish and Swedish sko, Old Frisian skoch, Old Saxon skoh, Middle Dutch scoe, Dutch schoen, Old High German scuoh, German Schuh, Gothic skoh). No known cognates outside Germanic, unless it somehow is connected with PIE root *skeu- "cover" (cognates: second element in Latin ob-scurus).\n
\nOld plural form shoon lasted until 16c. Meaning "metal plate to protect a horse's hoof" is attested from late 14c. Distinction between shoe and boot (n.) is attested from c.1400. To stand in someone's shoes "see things from his or her point of view" is attested from 1767. Old shoe as a type of something worthless is attested from late 14c.\n
\nShoes tied to the fender of a newlywed couple's car preserves the old custom (mentioned from 1540s) of throwing an old shoe at or after someone to wish them luck. Perhaps the association is with dirtiness, on the "muck is luck" theory.
Old English scogan "to shoe," from the root of shoe (n.). In reference to horses from c.1200. Related: Shoed; shoeing.
Wiktionary
n. 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 boot, which do. 2 A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe. 3 (context card games English) 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''. 5 # 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. 6 # 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. 7 # The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion. 8 # (context architecture English) 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. 9 # A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone. 10 # An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill. 11 # An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter. 12 # An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile. 13 # (context engineering English) 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. 14 # 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). 15 The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile. vb. 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.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: horseshoe]
a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation [syn: brake shoe, skid]
[also: shod]
v. furnish with shoes; "the children were well shoed"
[also: shod]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
A shoe is a piece of outerwear worn on one's foot.
Shoe, Shoes, or The Shoe may also refer to:
(1516–1564) was a relative to Honganji Kennyo, and the administrator of Ganshō-ji. In the battle between Shōe and Oda Nobunaga, Shōe even sent out Nobunaga's brother Oda Nobuoki to take his own life. In the face of many fierce attacks, he finally accepted defeat and committed suicide.
Category:1516 births Category:1564 deaths
A dealing shoe or dealer's shoe is a gaming device, mainly used in casinos, to hold multiple decks of playing cards. The shoe allows for more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles and less chance of dealer cheating. In some games, such as blackjack (where card counting is a possibility), using multiple decks of cards can increase the house edge.
A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot while doing various activities. Shoes are also used as an item of decoration. The design of shoes has varied enormously through time and from culture to culture, with appearance originally being tied to function. Additionally, fashion has often dictated many design elements, such as whether shoes have very high heels or flat ones. Contemporary footwear varies widely in style, complexity and cost. Basic sandals may consist of only a thin sole and simple strap. High fashion shoes may be made of very expensive materials in complex construction and sell for thousands of dollars a pair. Other shoes are for very specific purposes, such as boots designed specifically for mountaineering or skiing.
Traditionally, shoes have been made from leather, wood or canvas, but are increasingly made from rubber, plastics, and other petrochemical-derived materials.
Though it has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in relation to vastly varied terrain and climate conditions, the human foot is still vulnerable to environmental hazards such as sharp rocks and hot ground, against which, shoes can protect.
Shoe is an American comic strip about a motley crew of newspapermen, all of whom are birds. It was written and drawn by its creator, cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, from September 13, 1977 until his death in 2000. It has since been continued by Chris Cassatt, Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly.
While not politically oriented in the style of strips such as Doonesbury, Shoe often pokes fun at various social and political issues of the day (especially when Senator Batson D. Belfry makes an appearance). Although not particularly well-known outside of the U.S., Shoe was in fact granted its own monthly comic book in Norway for a brief time in 1987 under the name "Sjur," which consisted of reprints from newspapers. The magazine reached a total of six publications. Later on, in 1989, Shoe did a brief comeback to Norwegian readers, this time under the name "Krax," appearing as an extra-feature in the then brand-new Calvin & Hobbes magazine.
The strip won MacNelly the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for the year 1979.
Usage examples of "shoe".
Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.
Phoebe Simms was not yet accoutred to appear as Madame Alp at intermission, but Florian and Fitzfarris decided that the triplets were worth displaying even in their duckling-looking garb of threadbare old homespun and big new shoes.
Elizabeth Ames knew that when the carriage door shut, when the last instructions were shouted out of the window, and when the frantically waving handkerchief disappeared in a cloud of dust, she would go inside, kick off her shoes, and succumb to the bliss of a cup of tea in the middle of the day.
From the pure white kaffiyeh on his head bound by the heavy silver-and-black cords of an argal, to the expensive tailored suit on his large frame and his handmade shoes, he was the embodiment of Middle East wealth and power.
Waterford bowl with gold mountings, Jimmy in white slacks, an Armani pull and Gucci shoes, Tina in Westwood Lycra pants that hugged lipo-ed buttocks as if they were madly in love with them, Enya from the Lord of the Rings on the Bang and Oluf sen, all this and sorrow.
I went in with her and was astonished to see a great display of dresses, and in an adjoining closet all the array of the toilette, linen in abundance, and a good stock of shoes and embroidered slippers.
She watched Aunty Em repairing shoes, repairing trousers, jabbing the needle so hard that she sometimes stabbed herself with it.
And that old, specious, dressed-up, garbled, sea-sick ptomaine prancing about avidiously like an irremediable turkey gobbler with patent leather shoes on is my best friend.
None of them seemed to find it odd that a policeman would be badgeless and wearing tennis shoes.
It took Mum a long time to get ready and while she powdered her face and arranged the elaborate ornamented folds of her head-gear and dug out her necklaces and bangles, her wrappers and white shoes, and plaited her hair hurriedly in the mirror, Dad was already asleep on his three-legged chair.
Their imitation gold bangles and necklaces, brooches and rings of cheap rubies, their indispensable high-heeled shoes, glittered under the lights.
His closely trimmed hair was grey at the temples and although most of the men flying that night would be wearing white roll-neck sweaters and stained battledress, Munro was never seen on duty in anything other than his well-tailored barathea with his hand-made shoes polished like patent leather.
Admiral Beagle, who made conversational points with his feet that other men make with voice or hands, nudged him with a shoe.
They proceeded to sit down and I began to take off their shoes, praising the beauty of their legs, and pretending for the present not to want to go farther than the knee.
Boxes and shoe bags and a Minolta camera case and a larger box that said Bekins had been tossed out to the center of the room.