shoe

plural shoes · archaic dialectal plural shoon · obsolete plural shoen

1. footwearA 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.

   Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.

2. A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.

   Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.

3. card gamesA 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.

   Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.

   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 brake for a wheeled vehicle which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
   4. architectureA 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. engineeringA 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).
   11. historicalAn ingot of gold or silver shaped somewhat like a traditional Chinese shoe, formerly used in trade in the Far East.

       The finest gold among them is 100 touch, called Sycee, i. e. pure gold without alloy: so that if a shoe of gold touch 93, then it hath 93 parts of fine gold and 7 parts alloy.

       1806, Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel, The Asiatic Annual Register, page 56

       Synonyms: boat money, shoe money

5. The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
6. broadlyslangA pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
7. slangA fake passport.

present singular third person shoes · participle present shoeing · past shod · past shoed · obsolete participle past shodden · participle past shod · participle past shoed

1. intransitiveTo put shoes on one's own feet.

   Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.

2. transitiveTo put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.

   "Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand."

   1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXXII, in Far from the Madding Crowd

3. intransitiveTo cover an object with a protective layer of material.

   The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.

   1 more example

   And they had been made by the same brand of tire as that which shod the car I sat in!

   1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page iv. 38

plural Shoes

1. A surname.