1. s. 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 generall
Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
2. s. 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. s. (card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
4. s. 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.
5. s. 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. s. 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. s. The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
8. s. (architecture) 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
9. s. A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
10. s. An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
11. s. An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
12. s. An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
13. s. (engineering) 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
14. s. 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
15. s. The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
16. v. To put shoes on one's feet.
17. v. To put horseshoes on a horse.
18. v. To equip an object with a protection against wear.
