Word Finder - shoe

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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.

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

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

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

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A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.

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Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.

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

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The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.

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To put shoes on one's feet.

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To put horseshoes on a horse.

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To equip an object with a protection against wear.

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The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.

Maybe he was wondering when the other shoe would fall.

He owned a shoe store at one time—back in the seventies, I think.

When you called in your tip, we came down on him like a shoe on a bug.

She looked at her shoe then back up, straightening as she stared at her reflection.

Columbus is near the Ohio coal and iron-fields, and has an extensive trade in coal, but its largest industrial interests are in manufactures, among which the more important are foundry and machine-shop products (1905 value, $6,259,579); boots and shoes (1905 value, $5,425,087, being more than one-sixtieth of the total product value of the boot and shoe industry in the United States, and being an increase from $359,000 in 1890); patent medicines and compounds (1905 value, $3,214,096); carriages and wagons (1905 value, $2,197,960); malt liquors (1905 value, $2,133,955); iron and steel; regalia and society emblems; steam-railway cars, construction and repairing; and oleo-margarine.

Then another shoe came off.

She's got a sharp tongue, but she could make shoe soles taste like fine steak.

Pierre had brought in a dress box and shoe box earlier.

The expression is if the shoe fits, not the pot!

Gabriel obeyed, and Katie flung a shoe at the domineering man with the jewel-toned eyes.

She dropped to her knee and pretended to retie her shoe.

When they had finished dinner and were having port back in the drawing room, Jackson asked, "Now that you've seen Sarah's shoe closet, would you like to see the rest of the house?"

He secured it with a shoe on either side.

Tanneries exist in nearly every government, but it is especially at Warsaw and St Petersburg, and after these at Moscow, that the largest and best modern tanneries and shoe and glove factories are established.

Boot and shoe manufactures are carried on everywhere; but the best goods are produced by Mainz and Pirmasens.

She has a very loud squeak for such a tiny shoe!

So they threw their sabots, a kind of clog shoe, into the machinery to break it—an act that gave us the word sabotage.

However, I was released the next day, obtained my mended shoe, and returned to the woods in season to get my dinner of huckleberries on Fair Haven Hill.

They stood and looked in my eye or pecked at my shoe significantly.

The old man was still sitting in the ornamental garden, like a fly impassive on the face of a loved one who is dead, tapping the last on which he was making the bast shoe, and two little girls, running out from the hot house carrying in their skirts plums they had plucked from the trees there, came upon Prince Andrew.

The camping facilities were secondary to the main park functions, multiple ball fields, tennis courts and twenty-four horse shoe pits, for the serious pitcher.

A clerk in the shoe department saw a guy and his wife carrying a child.

She felt something squish beneath her shoe and almost vomited.

Lifting his foot, he struck the match on the sole of his shoe.

When she turned her attention to him, he dropped the cigarette on the ground and rubbed it out with the toe of his shoe.

Keaton kicked at a stick and made a mark in the gravel with the toe of his shoe.

Among the industrial establishments of the city are stove and range factories, flour mills, rolling mills, distilleries, breweries, shoe factories, copper refining works, nail and tack factories, glass works and agricultural implement factories.

There was a shoe trade in the town as early as the 17th century, and gloves were made from the end of the 16th century until about 1863.

Sacheverell was among its rectors (1713-1724), and Thomas Chatterton (1770) was interred in the adjacent burial ground, no longer extant, of Shoe Lane Workhouse; the register recording his Christian name as William.

Boston University was endowed by Isaac Rich (1801-1872), a Boston fish-merchant, Lee Claflin (1791-1871), a shoe manufacturer and a benefactor of Wesleyan University and of Wilbraham Seminary, and Jacob Sleeper.

There are also potteries, paper, soap and shoe factories, flour mills and breweries, and the many mineral springs.

The value of its factory products in 1905 was $ 1 7, 1 4 6, 33 8 (1 4.3% more than in 1900), the more important being those of steel works and rolling mills ($4,528,907), blast furnaces, steam railway repair shops, cigar and cigarette factories ($1,258,498), foundries and machine shops ($953,617), boot and shoe factories ($922,568), flouring and grist mills, slaughtering and meat-packing establishments and silk mills.

In 1873 a destructive fire caused the loss of 35 places of business, and on the 17th of February 1882 almost the entire shoe district (consisting of 10 acres) was burned, with a loss of more than $2,000,000; but a greater business district was built on the ruins of the old.

Leather and shoe machinery also are important manufactures; and the main plant of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation is located here.

A great impulse to the prosperity of the town was given by the introduction of the boot and shoe trade, especially the manufacture of uppers.

After successfully establishing himself as a shoe manufacturer, he attracted attention as a public speaker in support of William Henry Harrison during the presidential campaign of 1840.

If he refused, "then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house."

After inquiry as to the relationship of the parties and their status (for if either be a minor or deformed, halisah cannot take place), the shoe is produced.

The widow then loosens and removes the shoe, throwing it some distance, and spits on the ground, repeating thrice the Biblical formula "So shall it be done," &c. Ilalisah, which is still common among orthodox Jews, must not take place on the Sabbath, a holiday, or the eve of either, or in the evening.

In the last decade of the 15th and the first decade of the 16th century there were several insurrections in the south-west of Germany, each of which was called a Bundsc/zuh, a shoe fastened upon a pole serving as the standard of revolt.

This cut of shoe is most in vogue amongst Moslems. (2) Gol panje ki juti, like English slippers, but rounded at the toes.

The priests wear a peculiar heavy shoe, with an ivory or wooden lining at the heel.

There are malt-houses and boot, shoe and stay factories.

The boot and shoe trade is prosperous, and there are extensive engineering and hydraulic machinery works.

The industrial establishments of the city include flour, planing and saw mills, the machine shops (of the St Louis division) of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway, ice factories, pearl button factories and a shoe factory.

The industrial population is employed in boot and shoe making, the local staple.

The zodiac of Denderah; the Savoyards who carved their pine-forests into toys; the naked Derar, horsed on an idea, charging a troop of Roman cavalry; the long, austere Pythagorean lustrum of silence; Napoleon on the deck of the "Bellerophon," observing the drill of the English soldiers; the Egyptian doctrine that every man has two pairs of eyes; Empedocles and his shoe; the horizontal stratification of the earth; a soft mushroom pushing its way through the hard ground, - all these allusions and a thousand more are found in the same volume.

The priests wear a white jacket with loose sleeves, a head-cloth like a turban and a special type of shoe with turned-up toes and soles projecting at the heel.

The boot and shoe industry is new west of the Mississippi, but Missouri holds in it a high and rising rank.

It is primarily an educational centre, is a market for grain and farm products, and has grain elevators, a packing house, a shoe factory and brick works.