Shoe

Quick meaning: Shoe is a noun meaning A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
2. Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
3. The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
4. (by extension, slang) A pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
5. (intransitive) To put shoes on one's own feet.
6. (footwear) 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.
7. (slang) A fake passport.

Example Sentences

The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.

Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.

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

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

Word Forms

• shoes
• shoon
• shoen
• shoeing
• shod
• shoed
• shodden

Synonyms for shoe

Depending on context, synonyms include kick, calceate, horseshoe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include horseshoe, footwear, sandal, clog, slipper, brogan.

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