shoe

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   furnish with shoes

   the children were well shoed

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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. 5
   verb

   To put shoes on one's own feet.

   Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.

6. 6
   verb

   To 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."

7. 7
   verb

   To cover an object with a protective layer of material.

   The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.

8. 8
   noun

   a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skōhaz Proto-West Germanic *skōh Old English sċōh Middle English scho English shoe From Middle English scho, sho, from Old English sċōh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh, from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabatēnum, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabatō, Spanish zapato (“shoe”), French sabot (“wooden shoe, clog”), Itali…