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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
toecap
noun
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▪ A textile toecap and a plastic shield wrapped around the heel add stiffening.
▪ Each time the toecap went into his stomach, Pike moaned quietly, his knuckles tightening round his toupee.
▪ Her toecap took him under the chin, close to the throat.
▪ Initially, the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent.
▪ The white-hot stream flowed down a crudely fashioned open conduit, passing only a couple of feet from Robyn's toecaps.
▪ Their toecaps turned little scoops of dust as they walked.
Wiktionary
toecap

n. The part of a boot that covers the toes.

WordNet
toecap

n. leather covering the toe of a boot or shoe and reinforcing or decorating it

Usage examples of "toecap".

In complete contrast, the stainless-steel toecaps of his heavyweight engineer boots were ground to a brilliant shine.

Sebastian rubbed the toecaps of his shoes against his calves until they shone, and straightened the line of his brocaded waistcoat.

They checked that the newcomers had no metal toecaps on their boots or lighted cigarettes about their persons, then led them back to the harbour-office where huge, crudely-lettered notices insisted NO SMOKING, TURN OFF ALL ELECTRICS and MAKE NO SPARKS.

Those crop-headed aficionados of the steely toecap had been met head on by the students of the Brentford Temple of Dimac Martial Arts Society, who had been Umbering up for their evening's training schedule with a fifteen-mile run.

Toecap said, 'All beer and dirty underwear, this bloke,' and the young one made a joke based upon the alimentary canal.

The front of one has the sole coming off and a bit of the toecap is burned on the other, which must have happened before they got wet.

I could hear their M-16s, that plastic, almost toylike sound as they moved them in their hands, or dropped a butt onto the toecap of a boot.