shoe

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1. Crocodile skin shoes

Etymology

From Middle English shoo, from Old English scōh (“shoe”), from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe", literally "covering”) (cf. Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Danish and Swedish sko), from Proto-Indo-European *skeuk- (cf. Tocharian B skāk ‘balcony’), from *(s)keu- (“to cover”). More at sky.

Pronunciation

Noun

shoe (plural shoes or shoon (archaic, dialectal))

  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.
    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. Something resembling a shoe by function, like a brake shoe.
    Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.

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Translations

protective covering for the foot
piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse’s foot — see horseshoe
something resembling a shoe (e.g. brake shoe)
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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.
    • …men and women clothed and shod for the ascent… — Michel Potay, The Gospel Delivered in Arès, 26:6, 1995
  2. To put horseshoes on a horse.
  3. To equip an object with a protection against wear.
    The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.

Translations

To put shoes on one's feet
to put horseshoes on a horse
to equip with protection
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