shoe 
My gentleman must have horses, Pip ! . . . Shall colo- 
nists have their horses (and blood 'mis, if you please, good 
Lord!) and not my London gentleman? No, no ! We'll 
show 'em another pair of shoes than that, Pip, won't us? 
Dickens, Great Expectations, xl. 
Cutting shoe. See cutting-shoe. Dead men's shoes. 
See dead. Piked shoont. See pilaH, n., 1 (e). San- 
daled shoes. See miidalnl. Shoe of an anchor, 
(a) A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a 
hole to receive the point of the anchor-fluke, used to 
prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the ship's 
bow when raised or lowered. (6) A broad triangular piece 
of thick plank fastened to an anchor-fluke to extend its 
area and consequent bearing-surface when sunk in soft 
ground. Shoe Of gold or of silver, in the far East, a 
name given to certain ingots of precious metal supposed to 
have the form of a shoe, but more like a boat. They were 
formerly current in trade, and were known by this name 
to foreigners in China as late as 1875. Yule and Burnell. 
I took with me about sixty pounds of silver shoes and 
twenty ounces of gold sewed in my clothes, besides a small 
assortment of articles for trading and presents. 
The Century, XLI. 6. 
To be in one's shoes or boots, to be in one's place. [Col- 
loq.] To die in one's shoes or boots, to suffer a vio- 
lent death; especially, to be hanged. (Slang.] 
And there is M'Fuze, 
And Lieutenant Tregooze, 
And there is Sir Carnaby Jenks, of the Blues, 
All come to see a man die in his shoes! 
Ingoldsby Legends, I. 286. 
To hunt the clean shoe. See hunt. To know or feel 
where the shoe pinches. See pinch. To put the 
shoe on the right foot, to lay the blame where it be- 
longs. | r. ill,, q. | To win one's shoes*, to conquer in 
combat : said of knights. 
It es an harde thyng for to save 
Of doghety dedis that hase bene done. 
Of felle feghtynges and batelles sere, 
And how that thir knyghtis hase wone thair schone. 
MS. Lincoln A. i. 17, f. 149. (Hattivxll.) 
shoe 1 (sho), v, t. ; pret. and pp. shod (pp. some- 
times shodden), ppr. shoeing. [Early mod. E. 
also shooe; < ME. schoen, schon, shon (pret. 
schoede, pp. shod, schod, shodde, ischod, iscod), 
< AS. sceoian (also gescygian, < gescy, shoes) = 
D. schoeijen = MLG. schoen, schoien, schoigen 
= OHG. scualtan, MHG. schuohen (cf. G. be- 
schuhen) = Icel. skua, skua = Sw. Dan. sko, 
shoe; from the noun.] 1. To fit with a shoe 
or shoes, in any sense: used especially in the 
preterit and past participle. 
Dreme he barefote or dreme he shod. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, i. 98. 
For yche a hors that ferroure schalle scho, 
An halpeny on day he takes hym to. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 319. 
His horse was silver shod before, 
With the beaten gold behind. 
Child Noryce (Child's Ballads, II. 40). 
What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane ! a clod- 
hopping messenger would never do at this juncture. 
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre, xx. 
When our horses were shodden and rasped. 
R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, Ixii. 
2. To cover or arm at a point, as with a ferrule. 
The small end of the billiard stick, which is shod with 
brass or silver. Evelyn. 
He took a lang spear in his hand, 
Shod with the metal free. 
Battle ofOtterbourne (Child's Ballads, VII. 20). 
To shoe an anchor. SeeancAori. 
shoe 2 , pron. A dialectal form of she. 
shoebeak (sho'bek), n. Same as shoebill. 
Shoebill (sho'bil), . The whalehead, Bttlse- 
niceps rex. See cut under Balseniceps. P. L. 
Sclater. 
shoe-billed (sho'bild), a. Having a shoe-shaped 
bill: boat-billed: as, the shoe-billed stork. 
shoeblack (sho'blak), M. [< shoe 1 + black, r.] A 
person who cleans and polishes shoes and boots, 
especially one who makes a living by this. 
shoeblack-plant (sho'blak-plant), . An East 
Indian rose-mallow, Hibiscus Bosa-sinensis, of- 
ten cultivated in hothouses, it is a tree 20 or so 
feet high, with very showy flowers 4 or 5 inches broad, 
borne on slender peduncles. Tile flowers contain an as- 
tringent juice causing them to turn black or deep-pur- 
ple when bruised, and used by Chinese women for dye- 
ing their hair and eyebrows, and in Java for blacking 
shoes (whence the name). Also shoe-flower and Chinese 
rose. 
shoeblacker (sho'blak'er), n. [< shoe 1 
+ blacker.] Same as shoeblack. [Bare.] 
shoe-blacking ( sho ' blak " ing) , n . 
Blacking for boots and shoes. 
Shoe-block (sho'blok), n. Naiit., a 
block with two sheaves, whose axes 
are at right angles to each other, 
used for the buntlines of the courses. 
shoe-bolt (sho'bolt), . A bolt with 
a countersunk head, used for sleigh- 
runners. E. H. Knight. 
shoeboy (sho'boi), . A boy who 
cleans shoes. 
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When you are in lodgings, and no shoe-boy to be got, 
clean your master's shoes with the bottom of the curtains, 
a clean napkin, or your landlady's apron. 
Su-ift, Advice to Servants (Footman). 
shoe-brush (sho'brush), . A brush for clean- 
ing, blacking, or polishing shoes. 
shoe-buckle (sho'buk"!), . A buckle for fas- 
tening the shoe on the foot, generally by means 
of a latchet or strip passing over the instep, 
of the same material as the shoe, shoes were se- 
cured by buckles throughout the latter part of the seven- 
teenth century and nearly the whole of the eighteenth. 
They were worn by both men and women. Such buckles 
were sometimes of precious material, and even set with 
diamonds. In the present century the fashion has been 
restored at intervals, but most contemporary shoe-buckles 
are sewed on merely for ornament. 
shoe-fastener (sho'fas'ner), n. 1. Any device 
for fastening a shoe. 2. A button-hook. 
shoe-flower (sho'flou'er), n. Same as shoe- 
black-plant. 
shoe-hammer (sho'ham*er),n. Ahammerwitha 
broad and slightly convex 
face for pounding leather 
on the lapstone to con- 
dense the pores, and for 
driving sprigs, pegs, etc., 
and with a wide, thin, shM . hammer . 
rounded peen used to 
press out the creases incident to the crimping 
of the leather. Also called shoemakers' hammer. 
Shoe-hom (sho'hdrn), n. Same as shoeing- 
horn, 1. 
shoeing (shS'ing), n. [Early mod. E. also shoo- 
ing; < ME. schoynge; verbal n. of shoe 1 , v.] 1. 
The act or process of putting on shoes or fur- 
nishing with shoes. 
Schoynge. of hors. Ferracio. Prompt. Pan., p. 447. 
Outside the town you find the shoeing forges, which are 
relegated to a safe distance for fear of tin-. 
Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 13. 
2. Foot-covering; shoes collectively. [Obso- 
lete or colloq.] 
Schoynge of a byschope ; . . . sandalia. 
Cath. Any., p. 337. 
The national sandal is doubtless the most economical, 
comfortable, and healthy shoeing that can be worn in this 
country. U. S. Com. Rep., No. lix. (1885), p. 234. 
shoeing-hammer (sho'ing-ham'er), n. Alight 
hammer for driving the nails of horseshoes. 
E. H. Knight. 
shoeing-horn (sho'ing-horn), ?i. [Early mod. E. 
&lsosliooing-horne; < ME.schoynge-hornc; (shoe- 
ing + horn.] 1. An implement used in putting 
on a shoe, curved in two directions, in its width 
to fit the heel of the foot, and in its length to 
avoid contact with the ankle, used for keeping 
the stocking smooth and allowing the counter 
of the shoe to slip easily over it. such imple- 
ments were formerly made of horn, but are now commonly 
of thin metal, ivory, bone, wood, or celluloid. Also shoe- 
horn. 
Sub. But will he send his andirons? 
Face. His jack too, 
And 's iron shoeing-horn. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. 
2. Figuratively, anything by which a transac- 
tion is facilitated. 
By little and little, by that shoeing-horn of idleness, 
and voluntary solitariness, melancholy, this feral flend is 
drawn on. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 246. 
Hence (a) A dangler about young women, encouraged 
merely to draw on other admirers. 
Most of our fine young ladies readily fall in with the 
direction of the graver sort, to retain in their service . . . 
as great a number as they can of supernumerary and in- 
significant fellows, which they use like whifflers, and com- 
monly call shoeing-horns. Addison, Spectator, No. 536. 
(6t) An article of food acting as a whet, especially in- 
tended to induce drinking of ale or the like. 
A slip of bacon . . . 
Shall serve as a shoeing-horn to draw on two pots of ale. 
Bp. Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle, i. 1. 
Haue some shooing horne to pul on your wi n e, as a rasher 
of the coles, or a redde herring. 
Nathe, Pierce Penilesse, p. 64. 
shoe-jack (sho'jak), n. An adjustable holder 
for a last while a shoe is being fitted upon it. 
E. H. Knight. 
shoe-key (sho'ke), n. In shoemaking, a hook 
used to withdraw the last from a boot or shoe. 
E. H. Knight. 
shoe-knife (sho'mf), . A knife with a thin 
blade fixed by a tang in a wooden handle, used 
by shoemakers for cutting and paring leather. 
shoe-lace (sho'las), n. A shoe-string. 
Shoe-latchet (sho'lach^et), . [Early mod. E. 
shoo-latchet ; (.shoe^ + latchet.] A thong, strap, 
or lace for holding a shoe on the foot ; also, in 
Scrip., a strap used to fasten a sandal to the 
foot. Compare shoe-tie. 
shof 
Shoe-leather (shii'leTH'er), . 1. Leather for 
shoos. 
This hollow cylinder is fitted with a sucker, . . . upon 
which is nailed a good thick piece of tanned shoe-leather. 
Boyle, Spring of the Air. 
2. Shoes, in a general sense, or collectively: as, 
he wears out plenty of shoe-leather. [Colloq.] 
shoeless (sho'les), a. [< shoe + -less.] Desti- 
tute of shoes, whether from poverty or from 
custom. 
Caltrops very much incommoded the shoeless Moors. 
Addison. 
shoemaket, . An old spelling of sumac. 
shoemaker (sho ' ma " ker), . [= D. schoen- 
iiin/.Tr= MLG. schomakcr, schomekcr = MHG. 
schiiochmacher, G. schulnnacher=Sw. skomakare 
= Dan. skomager; as shoe 1 -f ' maker.] A maker 
of shoes; one who makes or has to do with 
making shoes and boots Coral shoemaker. See 
coral. 
shoemaker's-bark (sho'ma'kerz-bark), n. 
Same as muriuri-bark. 
shoemaking (sho'ma'king), n. The trade of 
making shoes and boots. 
shoepack (sho'pak), n. A shoe made without 
a separate sole, or in the manner of a moc- 
casin, but of tanned leather. [Lake Superior.] 
shoe-pad (sho'pad), n. In farrier;/, a pad some- 
times inserted between the horseshoe and the 
hoof. E. H. Knight. 
shoe-peg (sho"peg), . In shoemaking, a small 
peg or pin of wood or metal used to fasten parts 
of a shoe together, especially the outer and 
inner sole, and the whole sole to the upper. 
Before recent improvements in shoeniiiking machinery, 
cheap shoes were commonly pegged, especially in the 
United States. See cuts under pey and peg-strip. 
shoe-pocket (sho'pok'et), . A leather pocket 
sometimes fastened to a saddle for carrying ex- 
tra horseshoes. 
shoer (sho'er), n. [Early mod. E. shooer, < ME. 
schoer, also shoer, horseshoer; < shoe 1 + -er 1 .] 
One who furnishes or puts on shoes; especially, 
a blacksmith who shoes horses. 
A schoer; ferrarius. Cath. Ang., p. 337. 
shoe-rose (sho'roz), . See rose 1 , 3. 
shoes-and-stockings (shoz'and-stok'ingz). n. 
The bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus : less 
commonly applied to some other plants. 
shoe-shaped (sho'shapt), a. Shaped like a shoe ; 
boat-shaped; slipper-shaped; cymbiform. See 
Paramecium. 
shoe-shave (sho'shav), n. A tool, resembling a 
spokeshave, for trimming the soles of boots and 
shoes. 
shoe-Stirrup (shci 'stir"up), n. A stirrup or foot- 
rest shaped like a shoe, as the stirrups of side- 
saddles were formerly made. 
shoe-stone (sho'ston), n. A cobblers' whet- 
stone. 
shoe-strap (sho'strap), n. A strap usually pass- 
ing over the instep and fastened with a buckle 
or button, to secure the shoe on the foot. 
shoe-Stretcher (shp'strech"er), . A last made 
with a movable piece which can be raised or 
lowered with a screw, to distend the leather of 
the shoe in any part. 
shoe-String (sho'string), . A string used to 
draw the sides of a shoe together, so as to hold 
it firmly upon the foot. 
Shoe-strings had gone out, and buckles were in fashion ; 
but they had not assumed the proportions they did in af- 
ter years. 
J. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 154. 
shoe-thread (sho'thred), . [Early mod. E. 
shoothred; < shoe 1 + thread.] Shoemakers' 
thread. 
shoe-tie (sho'ti), w. A ribbon or silk braid for 
fastening the two sides of a shoe together, usu- 
ally more ornamental than a shoe-string, and 
formerly very elaborate: hence used, humor- 
ously, as a name for a traveler. 
Shoe-ties were introduced into England from France, and 
Shoe-tye, Shoo-tie, ete., became a characteristic name for a 
traveler. Nares. 
Master Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty 
the great traveller. Shak., M. for M., iv. 3. 18. 
They will help you to shoe-tie* and devices. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 
shoe-valve (sho'valv), . A valve in the foot 
of a pump-stock, or in the bottom of a reservoir. 
E. H. Knight. 
shoe-worker (sho'wer'ker), n. A worker in a 
shoe-factory; one who has to do with the mak- 
ing of shoes in any capacity. 
The shoeworkers' strike and lock-out. 
Philadelphia Ledger, Nov. 23, 1888. 
shoft. An obsolete strong preterit of shove. 
