The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shoe \Shoe\ (sh[=oo]), n.; pl. Shoes (sh[=oo]z), formerly Shoon (sh[=oo]n), now provincial. [OE. sho, scho, AS. sc[=o]h, sce['o]h; akin to OFries. sk[=o], OS. sk[=o]h, D. schoe, schoen, G. schuh, OHG. scuoh, Icel. sk[=o]r, Dan. & Sw. sko, Goth. sk[=o]hs; of unknown origin.]
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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.
Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied.
--Shak.Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon.
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Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. Specifically:
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 an automobile or railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
(Arch.) 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.
(Milling.) 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.
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(Mach.) 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.
Note: Shoe is often used adjectively, or in composition; as, shoe buckle, or shoe-buckle; shoe latchet, or shoe-latchet; shoe leathet, or shoe-leather; shoe string, shoe-string, or shoestring.
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The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, esp. for an automobile. Shoe of an anchor. (Naut.)
A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive the point of the anchor fluke, -- used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the vessel when raised or lowered.
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A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground.
Shoe block (Naut.), a block with two sheaves, one above the other, and at right angles to each other.
Shoe bolt, a bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes on sleigh runners.
Shoe pac, a kind of moccasin. See Pac.
Shoe stone, a sharpening stone used by shoemakers and other workers in leather.
Shoon \Shoon\, n.,
pl. of Shoe. [Archaic]
--Chaucer.
They shook the snow from hats and shoon.
--Emerson.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic or dialectal English) (plural of shoe English)
Usage examples of "shoon".
And thinking thus, he needs must cast his eye On rusty mail, on battered shoon, and sigh, And murmur fitful curses and lament That in such base, unknightly garb he went-- A lord of might whose broad shield bravely bore Of proud and noble quarterings a score.
If hosen and shoon thou gavest nane, The whins shall prick thee intil the bane.
Hosen and shoon are good, but they do not always sufficiently indicate the state of the heart.
But now she was getting close to landing an account with Yoon Shoon, a Korean self-configuring-athletic-shoe manufacturer.
Yoon Shoon company: a Michelin Man, a Reddy Kilowatt, a Ronald McDonald, a Mickey Mouse, like that.
The AIs twisted themselves into diverse shapes, modeling possible Yoon Shoon logoman designs.
Happy Shoon was a mix resembling a smiling athletic shoe, a dog with a floppy tongue, and a two-toothed Korean baby.
Happy Shoon bounced over to retrieve it, his motions clownish enough to send the kids into gales of laughter.
Momotaro and Bixie started playing hide and seek with Happy Shoon, and a virtual version of Chu showed up to join them.
I couldna even give them the shoon and suit of clothes a bondsman would have, let alone tools.
Why, the cost in shoe leather aloneand then, to say nothing of shoon for the horses!
Wearing summer boots in June, or Slippers worn and old -- Like a man whose other shoon are Getting soled.
Shedding her robe and kicking off the shoon, she grasped the handrail and stepped deliberately down into the icy, muddy waters, now only six inches or so below the floor of the upper hallway.
Within the foyer, other servants helped the two knights and the lancer officers to remove buff-coats, helmets, bits of armor, and weapons, offering soft, comfortable felt shoon to replace heavy jackboots, along with mugs of spiced ale to lay the dust of the ride.
Wool clothing lined with silk, old-fashioned trunkhose, and ankle-high shoon of quilted doeskin were not enough to keep the chill from his old bones this dank, dismal day, so he had had a fire laid and lit on the hearth and also had fired a small brass brazier nearby on the tabletop over which to warm his hands from time to time.