Dictionary Entry
shoe
shoe is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 6 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.
- 2noun
Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.
- 3noun
A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
- 7noun
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 from the building.
- 8noun
The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
- 9noun
An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
- 10noun
An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
- 11noun
An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
- 12noun
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 of adjustment; -- called also slipper, and gib.
- 13noun
To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor.
- 14noun
To protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip.
- 15noun
a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
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- 16noun
U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof
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- 17noun
footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material
- 18noun
(card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time
- 19verb
furnish with shoes
"the children were well shoed"
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