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▪ I. shoe, n.|ʃuː|
Pl. shoes |ʃuːz|; dial., poet., and arch. shoon |ʃuːn|. Forms: sing. 1 scóh, scó, sceó, 2 sceoh, 2–6 sho, 3 sco, 4 sso, 3–6 scho, 4–6 schoo, 4–7 shoo, (4 show), 6 showe, shue, (shough), 6–7 shew, 6–8 shooe, 6– shoe. pl. α. 1 scós, 1–2 sceós, 4–7 shoos, 4 schos, 5 schoz, schoys, schoez, schewis, 5–6 shoys, shewes, show(e)s, showys, shooys, shues, shuse, shuez, 6–8 shooes, 4– shoes. β. 3–5 schon, 3–6 schone, (3 scheon, son, sson), 4–7 shon(e, 4–6 schoon(e, 4–8 shoone, (4 Sc. schoyne, 5 shoyn, Sc. schoune), 5–6 shoen, 6 schoun(e, (Sc. schwyne), 6–8 shune, shooen, (7 Sc. shin), 4– shoon.
[Com. Teut.: OE. scóh masc. = OFris. scô (NFris. skog, skuch, WFris. skoech), OS. scôh (MLG. scô, LG. schô), MDu. scoe (mod.Du. schoen), OHG. scuoh, scuah (MHG. schuoch, schuo, mod.G. schuh), ON. skó-r (Sw., Da. sko), Goth. skōh-s:—OTeut. *skōho-z or skōhwo-z.
Some scholars refer the word to the root *skōhw-: *skǣw- to walk (Goth. skēwjan to take a walk, ON. skǽva to stride). Others, on account of the alternation of vowel in ON. skór pl. skúar, assume a pre-Teut. *skōuko-s, f. *skeu- to cover.
In OE. the collective ᵹescý was often used for the plural.]
1. a. An outer covering for the human foot, normally made of leather (but often of other materials) and consisting of a more or less stiff sole and a lighter upper part. Chiefly in more specific sense, distinguished from boot.
The original distinction was that the boot covered a part or the whole of the leg together with the foot, while the shoe covered the foot only. In the U.S. boot is still commonly applied only to an article of footgear reaching at least to the middle of the calf, one which ends at or below the ankle or just above it being called a shoe. In modern British use, the term boot is extended to include what were formerly called ‘half-boots’ or ‘high shoes’, i.e. ‘shoes’ (in the older sense) which cover the whole foot including the ankle; hence shoe is taken to mean specifically a ‘low shoe’, which leaves part of the foot covered only by the stocking; a shoe in this sense may either be fastened with laces, buttons, or the like, or (as in ‘dancing shoes’) it may differ from a slipper only in being suited for more ceremonious wear.
sing.c950Lindisf. Gosp. John i. 27 Ðæs ic ne am wyrðe þætte ic undoe his ðuong scoes. c1050Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 283 Calcarium, scoh. c1200Ormin 10438 Annd tiss dæþshildiȝ mann..Wass uss..ȝa þurrh þe sho Ȝa þurrh þe þwang bitacnedd. c1250Long Life 29 in O.E. Misc. 156 Ac deþ luteþ in his scho, Him stilliche to for-do. 1340Ayenb. 220 Zuiche fourme ase þe sso takþ ate ginnynge: he halt euremor ine þet stat. c1440Promp. Parv. 447/2 Schoo, mannys fote hyllynge, sotularis, calceus. Schoo, for buschopys, sandalium. 1449Pecock Repr. ii. xiv. 231 If he haue on him his scho, his slyue, his coot. 1535Fisher Serm. Wks. (1876) 402 If you be ashamed for a foule myrie shoo, and not of a foule stincking soule. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece i. iv. (1715) 18 A kind of Shooe that fitted both Feet. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel (1876) 314 [The custom] of giving the shoe in witness of a covenant.
pl.c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. x. 10 Calciamenta, scoea [c 975 Rushw. scoas, c 1000ᵹe-scy]. c1050Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) VIII. 322/19, & habbað eowre scos on eowrum fotum. c1175Lamb. Hom. 37 Do..wrecche men sceos and claðes. 12..Prayer to our Lady 42 in O.E. Misc. 193 Inne wel sittende schon. a1225Ancr. R. 362 Two þongede scheon. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2781 Moyses, moyses, do of ðin son. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 843 And shod he was with greet maistrye, With shoon decoped, and with laas. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 218 Proude prestes come with hym..In paltokes & pyked shoes. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1201 Wallace can him aray, In his armour,..His schenand schoys, that burnyst was full beyn. 1508Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. xxxviii. Wks. (1876) 79 The hunter therfore wyll laye a payre of shoon in his waye, and whan he perceyueth the hunter doynge on his shoos he wyll doo the same. 1577Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 4 b, With patche on patche like loutishe lob, he cobled oft his shues. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 288 With two Prouinciall Roses on my rac'd Shooes. Ibid. iv. v. 26 By his Cockle hat and staffe, and his Sandal shoone. 1634Milton Comus 635 The dull swayn Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 14/2 Laced shooes, have the over Leathers and edges of the Shooe laced in orderly courses. 1712Addison Spect. No. 317 ⁋4 Put on my double-soaled Shoes. 1786Burns To J. Smith ii, Ye've cost me twenty pair o' shoon Just gaun to see you. 1818Scott Rob Roy ix, Our immortal deliverer from papists and pretenders, and wooden shoes and warming pans. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 1058/1 In the 11th century the use of liturgical shoes and stockings was reserved for cardinals and bishops.
b. Explicitly distinguished from boot.
c1400Rom. Rose 2264 Of shoon and botes, newe and faire Loke at the leest thou have a paire. 1521Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 13 Ane pair of buttis and ane pair of schoun. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 165 They..delight to have their boots and shoos shine with blacking stuffe. 1823Scott Quentin D. Introd., His sedulous attachment to shoes and stockings, in contempt of half-boots and pantaloons. 1847J. S. Hall Bk. Feet (ed. 2) 138 Shoes are now very little worn: boots of some kind or other being the general wear.
c. high shoes, boots with high uppers. Hence, one who wears high shoes: see high-shoe.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 369 Þey usede hiȝe schone unto þe kne, i-slitte to fore [L. calcei usque ad poplites fissi], and i-laced wiþ þwonges. c1400Rom. Rose 7260 But Beggers with..high shoos knopped with dagges,..Or bootes revellyng as a gype. 1553Latimer Serm. Lincolnsh. iii. (1562) 82 When a man shall goe to battaile..for the nether parte he hathe high shoen. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 44 The horson smooth-pates doe now weare nothing but high shoes. 1603[see high-shoe 1].
d. as the lowest portion of one's attire.
1616B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. i, Whilst they..mocke me all ouer, From my flat cap, vnto my shining shooes.
Proverbial phrase.1887Mrs. Oliphant Son of Father xiv. 242 [She] felt..her heart sink to her shoes.
e. shoes of swiftness: the magic shoes of the giant in the tale of Jack the Giant-killer: occas. used allusively.
1787Hist. Jack & Giants 12 Jack soon put on his coat of darkness, with his shoes of swiftness. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. v, Surely also Punishment, this day, hitches..after Crime, with frightful shoes-of-swiftness!
2. Phrases and figurative uses.
a. old shoe: a type of something discarded as worn out, useless or worthless. Also, to cast, fling, etc. an old shoe after (a person): lit. as a means of bringing good luck (e.g. at a wedding); also fig. to wish (a person) good luck. † go meddle with (thy) old shoes: mind your own business.
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 708 The clerk whan he is oold and may noght do Of Venus werkes worth his olde sho. 1538Bale Thre Lawes 1670 What is that to the? go meddle thee with olde shone! 1546J. Heywood Prov. i. ix. (1562) C, Nowe for good lucke, caste an olde shoe after mee. 1679Hist. Jetzer 25 Thou Traytor..meddle with thy Old shooes!.. Go about thy business, Goodman Fool! 1663Killigrew Pars. Wedding iv. vii, Pars. I, with all my heart, there's an old shooe after you. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof 216 And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.
b. another pair of shoes (predicatively): quite a different matter or state of things. the shoe is on the other foot: the facts are otherwise, the position is reversed. Cf. the boot is on the other leg s.v. boot n.3 1 b.
1861Dickens Gt. Expect. xl, We'll show 'em another pair of shoes than that, Pip; won't us? 1865[see pair n.1 1 b]. 1895B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 10 ‘Ah! and you'll find a tiger is quite another pair of shoes’, I assured him impressively. 1933Mystery May 122/1 Inspector Queen has not been able to discover our man-about-town's source of income. A gigolo? Gigolos do not pay for ladies' apartments; the shoe is rather on the other foot. 1939B. K. Harris Purslane 179, I tell him if he had the waitin' on him to do the shoes would be on the other foot. 1953J. S. Huxley Evolution in Action ii. 49 All the objections to a selectionist explanation of evolution that are based on the improbability of its results, simply fall to the ground. In fact the shoe is now on the other foot. Improbability is to be expected as the result of natural selection. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Jan. 13/4 Most obviously, the shoe is on the other foot. Anyone who knows what rigour is will find it lacking in most of Hegel's transitions.
c. in one's shoes, without shoes, as a condition of measurement of stature. in their shoes: (of soldiers) fully equipped.
For to shake in one's shoes, see shake v. 4.
1724Lond. Gaz. No. 6308/3 John Cockran,..5 Foot 10 Inches one quarter without Shooes. 1815Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) XII. 323 We are getting on in strength, I have now 60,000 men in their shoes. 1859Meredith R. Feverel xlii, ‘You're afraid of ghosts’. ‘Belike I am when they're six foot two in their shoes’.
d. to die in one's shoes: to meet with a violent death, esp. to be hanged. Also allusively.
1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xlv. 174 Whoever refus'd to do this, should presently swing for't, and die in his Shoes. 1712[see die v.1 3]. 1837Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Execution, All come to see a man ‘die in his shoes!’
e. over (the) shoes: deeply immersed or sunk (in something). lit. and fig. See also over prep. 3 and over-shoe. Similarly up to the shoes.
over shoes, over boots: see boot n.3 1 b.
1518Star Chamber Cases (Selden Soc.) II. 137 They..thrust the same Antony ouer the showys in the myre. 1590Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 45 The countrey maides themselues fel in loue with this fair Nimph, and could not blame Menaphon for being ouer the shooes with such a beautifull creature. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 48. 1594 ― Rich. III, v. iii. 326. 1600 Abp. Abbot Jonah xxvi. 541 Being in vp to the shooes he will on to the shoulders. 1601[? Marston] Jack Drums Entert. i. B 2, Enter Flawne. Kathe. It seemes he can scarce carry himselfe. Drum. Hee's ouer the shooes, yet heele hold out water, for I haue liquor'd him soundly. 1615V. Alsop Anti-sozzo iii. 124, I find our Author over the shooes in Love.
f. to know best where one's shoe pinches: see pinch v. 1 b. Also in many other similar phrases.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 309 But I woot best where wryngeth me my sho. ― Wife's Prol. 492 He sat ful ofte and song Whan þat his shoo full bitterly hym wrong. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xc. 54 Thow knawis best quhair bindis the thi scho. 1639[J. Taylor] (Water P.) Divers Crabtree Lect. 96 No man can tell where his shooe wrings him, but hee that weares it. 1749Smollett Gil Blas viii. vi. (1782) III. 161 He defrayed the expence of every body; so that there I did not feel where the shoe pinched. 1890W. E. Norris Misadventure xlviii, Only after the deed has been done does the shoe really begin to pinch.
g. to put the shoe on the right foot: to put the blame on the real offender. (In mod. Dicts.)
h. to kiss (a person's) shoe (in token of servility or abject submission).
c1395Plowman's Tale lii. in Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 317 A king shall kneele and kisse his show. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 47 Pist. The King's a Bawcock..: I kisse his durtie shooe. 1819Shelley Peter Bell vii. vii, There was a bow of sleek devotion..; each motion Seemed a Lord's shoe to kiss.
†i. to win one's shoes (on or upon an adversary): to achieve renown by a victory. Cf. to win one's spurs. Common in the 15th century.
a1400Sir Perc. 1595 Ther salle other dedis be done, And thou salle wynne thi schone Appone the sowdane. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 174 And other dedes of armes to done, Through whiche ye may wynne your shone.
j. to waste one's shoes: to wear out one's shoes to no purpose.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 85 Another on his fiste a Sparhawke..and so, wasting his shone, Before the aulters he to and fro doth wander.
k. to be in (another person's) shoes: to be in his position or place. Chiefly in negative form = in his unenviable condition or plight. to place (a person) in the shoes of (another person): to give (him) the position vacated by (another). to step into the shoes of (another person): to occupy the position vacated by him. to wait for dead men's shoes: to wait for the death of a person with the expectancy of succeeding to his possessions or office.
1546J. Heywood Prov. i. xi. (1867) 37 Who waitth for dead men shoen, shall go long barefoote. 1609Old Meg of Herefordsh. (1816) 12 It were no hoping after dead mens shooes, for both vpper-leather and soles would bee worne out to nothing. 1767Bedingfield in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 404, I would rather chuse to stand in his Sardinian Majesty's shoes than his; who [etc.]. 1776Pennsylvania Even. Post 29 June 325/2 Volunteers, with the rank of officers (who are impatiently waiting at ‘the pool’ for the death and old shoes of commissioned officers). 1777J. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 304, I judge, I should put more to risk if I were in his shoes. 1822Scott Nigel x, But then, in order to secure the lender, he must come in the shoes of the creditor to whom he advances payment. ‘Come in his shoes!’ replied the Earl... ‘It is a law phrase, my lord’..said Heriot. 1842Sir H. Taylor Edwin the Fair iii. viii, Them that were placed by Edred in the shoes Of Seculars that by Edred were expulsed. 1860Reade Cloister & H. i, Cornelis..stuck to the hearth, waiting for dead men's shoes. 1864Trollope Small House at Allington xxviii, I must be the first to congratulate you on the acquisition of my old shoes. 1880J. Payn Confid. Agent III. 130, I wish I was in your shoes. 1908Times 21 July 3/1 The respondents were interested in the success of Mme. Bovet..but that could never put them in her shoes in vindicating her rights against wrongdoers.
†l. to tread (her) shoe awry (rarely amiss): to make a lapse from virtue. Obs.
c1422Hoccleve Minor P. xxiv. 66 No womman..But swich oon as hath trode hir shoo amis. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 187 Where the king had maried her for a mayde, he founde that she had troden her showe awrye. 1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxviii. 241 His Wife did tread her Shooe awry. 1828[Carr] Craven Gloss. (ed. 2) s.v. Shoe, ‘To tread one's shoes straight’, to behave with propriety, to be circumspect in our conduct.
m. Proverbial phrases.
1546J. Heywood Prov. ii. v. (1562) G iiij, Folke say of olde, the shoe will holde with the sole. 1591Lambarde Archeion (1635) 78 To apply one generall Law to all particular cases, were to make all shooes by one last. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 163 As arrant a villaine, as euer trode vpon a shooe of leather. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, One Shoe will not fit all Feet, Men are not all of a Size, nor all Conveniences of a Last. 1752Foote Taste i. (1781) 9 Twenty as fine Babes as ever trod in Shoe of Leather. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss. s.v. Old-Shoe, As easy as an old shoe. 1887S. Chesh. Gloss. s.v. Shoe, ‘Too big for one's shoon’, used of a person whose notions are too high for his station, a conceited person.
3. In the names of plants (see quots.).
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Shoes and stockings, the variety of primrose and polyanthus which has one flower sheathed within another. 1838W. Holloway Dict. Provinc., Shoes and stockings, [also] a wild flower of the cypripedium genus. 1878Britten & Holland Plant-n. s.v. Boots, Boots and Shoes (1) Lotus corniculatus, L.—Suss. (2) Aquilegia vulgaris, L.—Corn. 1882Friend Devonsh. Plant-n., Boots and shoes,..(2) Cypripedium Calceolus, L., often called ‘Lady's-slipper’. 1893Rep. Provinc. (E.D.D.), On seeing the Linaria vulgaris in blossom [she], Cornish by birth,..replied, ‘We always call it ‘Shoes and Stockings’.’
4. a. A plate of metal, usually iron, nailed to the under-side of the hoof of a horse as a protection from injury: = horseshoe 1. Also occas. a similar plate nailed to the hoof of an ox or some other animal.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 127 He made..þe mule..to be schodde uppon wiþ gold, forbedyng al his men þat when þe schone fel awey þat non schulde gadre þaym up. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas vii. v. (1554) 169 b, This Nero..Made his mules be shod with siluer shone. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §6 Oxen..haue no shoes, as horses haue. Ibid. §114 Lyttel stones, that goth in betwene the shough and the herte of the fote. 1540Coventry Leet-bk. 745 [That] no Smyth within this Cetie shoo no horse with forest shoyes. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xiii. §101 [The smith observed] that he was sure that his four shoes had been made in four several counties. a1720W. Gibson Diet of Horses viii. (1726) 135 Their Shooes should never be suffer'd to wear too smooth. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxx, You can never ride beyond the village but your horse will cast a shoe. 1828[Carr] Craven Gloss. (ed. 2) s.v. Shoon, ‘To addle his shoon’, is when a horse rolls on his back from one side to the other. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 697 The first shoes of a young horse should be light, with no heels.
b. See quot. (Cf. horseshoe 1 b.)
1801Strutt Sports & Past. ii. ii. §9. 60 Formerly..the rustics not having..quoits to play with, used horse-shoes and in many places the quoit itself..is called a shoe.
5. Something resembling a shoe (sense 1 or 4) in shape, position, or function.
† a. The iron blade or an iron cutting edge fastened upon the wooden blade (of a spade or shovel). Obs. † b. The piston (of a pump). Obs. rare . c. A metal rim, ferrule, casing or sheath, esp. for the end of a pile, pole, rod, or the like. d. The receptacle beneath the hopper of a mill. e. The short section which turns out the water at the foot of a water pipe. f. A kind of drag or skid for a wheel of a vehicle; also the concave part of a brake, which acts upon the wheel (more fully brake shoe). g. A strip of iron, steel, etc. fastened upon that part of a vehicle, machine, etc. which is liable to be worn out by friction. h. A socket for the reception of a bolt, pin, or the like. i. Naut. (See quot. 1769.) j. A block, plate, etc. which serves as a socket or bearing for the foot of a pole, the legs of sheers, etc. to prevent slipping or sinking. k. An iron plate shaped to receive the end of one or more pieces of timber in roof-construction. l. (See quot. 1881.) m. That part of the breech which carries the breech block in a converted rifle. n. (See quot.) o. Electr. traction. A block attached to an electric car in such a position that it slides upon a conductor-wire or rail and collects the current for its propulsion. p. An ingot of precious metal, somewhat in the form of a Chinese shoe, but more like a boat, formerly current in the trade of the Far East and current until the early 20th c. in silver in China. q. A tyre. slang. r. A box for dealing the cards in baccarat or chemin de fer. Also, a game of baccarat. s. On a camera, a socket or other mounting for the temporary attachment of an accessory.
a.c1440Jacob's Well xxx. 193, I lykenyd satysfaccyoun to a schouele... I telde ȝou þat þe scho of þe schouell was almes-dede. 1578[see shiver n.2 2]. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 331/1 He beareth Vert, a Spade Iron, Argent (some call it a shooe for a Spade). Ibid. iii. 393/1 The Bottom, or Shooe of a Trenching Spade. It is all Iron and put on the Staffe..with a..Socket.
b.1576Churchw. Acc. St. Michael, Oxford (MS.), Item payd to William Williams for a showe for the plumpe xvijd. 1593Ibid., It'm payd to Oven for settinge a shooe & a staff in ye plompe xxijd. 1599Acc. Balliol Coll., Oxford (MS.), Imprimis, a shooe for the plumpe, xvid.
c.1495Pyles shone [see pile n.1 5 d]. 1580Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 320 The quhelis garnesit with schone and two virollis only. 1791Smeaton Edystone Lightho. §81, I had a wooden measuring rod..this was shod with a rounded end or shoe of iron. 1837Civ. Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 33/1 All the piles are to be shod with proper wrought-iron shoes. 1857P. Colquhoun Comp. Oarsman's Guide 30 The boat-hook consists in the staff and shoe. 1972L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations ix. 90 The shoe of the foundation pile is equipped with a breakaway guide frame. 1976Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 8/2 Deviation will begin about 100 ft below the conductor shoe.
d.1688Holme Armoury iii. 340/2 The parts of a Wind-Mill... The Shoo or Shough, the Corn by its shaking drops down into the Mill. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 749 Below the hopper there is a small bucket called a shoe, into which the ore is shaken down.
e.1769Phil. Trans. LIX. 166 The bottoms of these pipes..terminate with a shoe of lead. 1899Daily News 10 Oct. 6/6 Water-pipes with heads and shoes.
f.1837L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. II. 377 The shoe or skid ought to be somewhat broader than the tire of the wheels. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Shoe, that part of a car-brake which is brought in contact with the wheel in the act of stopping a train. 1910Hobart Dict. Electr. Engin., Brake shoe, a cast-iron or wooden block which is pressed against the rim of a car wheel, or against the track rails..to retard the motion of the car.
g.1837L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. II. 805 Each division [of Brunel's tunnelling shield] was supported by two strong cast-iron plates, called shoes, and which rest upon gravel at the base. 1855in Harper's Mag. (1884) Jan. 232/2 Her bow was raised out of the water three or four feet, her shoe taken off her keel, and her keel itself cut through. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 246/2 The lower part of the trawl-head..is straight and flat... It is called the ‘shoe’, and is the part which slides over the ground.
h.1858Skyring's Builders' Prices 9 Shutter shoes with screws. 1878D. Kemp Yacht & Boat Sailing 368 Shoe or Shod, iron plates rivetted to the ends of wire rigging to receive shackle bolts.
i.1750T. R. Blanckley Naval Expos., Shoe for an Anchor is made of a Piece of Baulk,..one End cut with a Hole for the Bill{ddd}and the other with a triangular Notch to receive the Stock. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Shoe of the anchor, a small block of wood..having a small hole, sufficient to contain the point of the anchor-fluke... It is used to prevent the anchor from tearing..the planks..when ascending or descending. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
j.1843Rep. Brit. Assoc. 112 The frames stand upon legs resting upon capacious shoes. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 62 A shoe is a piece of wood about four feet long, two feet wide, and nine inches thick, with a hole in the centre for the sheer to step in. 1894Times 26 Feb. 3/6 There were no ‘shoes’ to prevent poles from slipping.
k.1842Civ. Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. V. 242/2 The principals [rafters] are fitted into cast iron shoes resting on the walls. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 156 The straining pieces [of a truss]..at their lower end..are fitted with a wrought iron shoe. Ibid., A cast-iron double shoe, or housing for the reception of the upper ends of the principals.
l.1874Raymond 6th Rep. Mines 410 Every casting, such as a shoe or die, in the battery is full of flaws. 1881― Mining Gloss., Shoe. A piece of iron or steel, attached to the bottom of a stamp or muller, for grinding ore. The shoe can be replaced when worn out.
m.1866Cornh. Mag. Sept. 348 It is now found more convenient to make the whole of the breech arrangement separately, and this ‘shoe’ is screwed into the back end of the barrel. 1881Greener Gun (1888) 141 The shoe of the breech carries within it the cylinder or breech-piece. Ibid. 142 An iron frame or shoe is screwed on to the barrel. The breech block is placed in this shoe.
n.1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, Shoes, steel or iron guides fixed to the ends and sides of cages, to fit and run upon the conductors. 1894Northumbld. Gloss.
o.1891Times 28 Sept. 13/6 The pulley has been abandoned in America as being inferior to the trolley or sliding shoe.
p.1702in J. T. Wheeler Madras in Olden Time (1861) I. 397 One Hundred shoes of gold, or so many thousand Pagodas or Rupees. 1711C. Lockyer Trade in India v. 132 Gold-makers..cast all the Gold, that comes through their Hands, into Shoos of about 10 Tale weight, 12 oz. 2 dwt. 4 gr. 1911Contemp. Rev. Nov. 705 A Chinese high offical said..‘I cannot obtain an audience at Court unless I send a number of ‘shoes’ of silver.. to an Imperial Prince’.
q.1917E. E. Cummings Let. 2 Aug. (1969) 32 The rear axle looked like a mosquito's beak, and there were 2 shoes blown. 1934R. Blaker Night-Shift vii. 87 If the tyres were worn to the fabric smooth as an egg, he could dismiss this outlay as ‘a set of new shoes’.
r.1923W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. xi. 149 Moordius dealt from the shoe. One card to the right, one to the left, one to himself. 1930D. Byrne Golden Goat i. 8 They were only interested in the passing of the ‘shoe’ as the chemin-de-fer box is called. 1960O. Manning Great Fortune i. 54 Hadjimoscos took his place before the shoe. As soon as he had drawn cards, he became serious and businesslike. 1964A. Wykes Gambling xiii. 324 Zographos could remember every card that was played throughout a game (or ‘shoe’) of baccarat. 1965D. Francis Odds Against iv. 52 He kept his side of the bargain by digging out the chemmy shoe. 1976‘J. Welcome’ Grand National iv. 54 The bank passed and the polished walnut and silver shoe slid along the table to a gaunt, henna-haired woman.
s.1953A. Matheson Leica Way 47 The Leica 1f and 1c models carry a detachable brilliant viewfinder..in one of the two accessory shoes. 1971, etc. [see hot shoe s.v. hot a. 12 c]. 1979SLR Camera Feb. 74/1 The modification consists of adding an extra contact to the shoe of the sensor lead.
6. attrib. and Comb.
a. simple attrib., as (sense 1) shoe-bag, shoe-clasp, shoe-factory, shoe heel, † shoe-knot, † shoe market (Sc.), shoe ribbon, shoe-rose (rose n. 15), shoe-shop, shoe-sole, shoe-store (orig. U.S.), shoe-strap, shoe-thread, shoe-tip, shoe-top, shoe-trade; also in the names of shoemakers' tools, as shoe nippers, shoe pincers, shoe pliers; (sense 5) shoe-seat.
1873S. Coolidge What Katy did at School vii. 139 Hang your dresses up..and put your shoes in the *shoe⁓bag. 1972J. Wilson Hide & Seek i. 7 The children began to pour out into the playground. Alice was..dragging her shoe bag along after her.
1797J. Robinson's Directory of Sheffield 52 *Shoe-clasp, and seal maker.
1855J. Holbrook Ten Years among Mail Bags 276 How many persons are employed in that *shoe factory? 1960M. Spark Ballad Peckham Rye vi. 111 She told him all of her life in the shoe factory.
1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5466/4 A middle sized Man.., Lame of his Left Leg, his Left Foot *Shoe-heel half a Quarter of a Yard high. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Shoeing 6 U 4/2 Strong shoe-heels are an ease to the weak heels, and fetlocks of horses.
1777Sheridan Trip to Scarboro iv. i, That which they call pin-money, is to buy everything.., down to their very *shoe-knots.
1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. lxxxii. (1760) IV. 186 His *shoe ribbons are also embroidered.
1796Jane Austen Pride & Prej. xvii, The very *shoe-roses for Netherfield were got by proxy.
1844Civ. Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VII. 112/1 The ‘*shoe seat’ or base of the frame is more deeply imbedded in the wood than is usual.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 8 The fair nymph of the *shoe-shop.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 395 Nero..usede *scho soles of silver. 1862Lowell Biglow P. Ser. ii. Introd. The Courtin', For she felt sartin⁓sure he'd come Down to her very shoe-sole.
1789Boston Directory 175 Bond and Bryant, *shoe-store. 1813Boston (Mass.) Rec. (1908) XXXVIII. 84 The old Town house adjoining his shoe store. 1976Milton Keynes Express 11 June 12/2 The shoe store of Leslie Wheeler at New Bradwell.
1775Ash, *Shoestrap, a shoe string.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 123 Vse ton for thy spinning, leaue Mihel the tother, for *shoo thred. 1609B. Jonson Silent Wom. iv. ii, She has a peruke, that's like a pound of hempe, made vp in shoo-thrids. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Shoe-thread Maker.
1897Flandrau Harvard Episodes 64 From the bit of white ribbon twisted through her hair..to the non-committal exposure of *shoe-tip.
1689Rector's Bk., Clayworth (1910) 89 Y⊇ 27th o' March was a snow to y⊇ *shooe-tops.
1850Ogilvie, *Shoe-trade, the trade of making boots and shoes.
b. Objective and obj. genitive, as shoe-clouter (Sc.), shoe-factor, shoe-repairer, shoe-rivetter, shoe-stitcher, shoe-vamper, shoe-wearer, shoe-worker; shoe-soling, shoe-wearing; also shoe-embossing, shoe-eyeleting, shoe-pegging, shoe-sewing (machines): see Knight Dict. Mech. 1875–84.
1581N. Burne Disput. 188 Quhais fals prophetes ar maid of Tinklaris, *schocloutaris [etc.].
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Shoe-factor, a wholesale dealer in shoes.
1933Radio Times 14 Apr. 127/1 The well-known Kensington *Shoe Repairers. 1976M. Hinxman End of Good Woman vii. 94 Shoe repairer, now that was ‘poshe’ if you like!
1887Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Nov. 6/2 Boot and *shoe rivetters and finishers.
1842A. Raleigh Rec. Life iii. (1881) 19, I have had to pay a good deal in books, *shoe-soling, medicine, etc.
1891S. C. Scrivener Our Fields & Cities iii. 26 Further, over the Huntingdonshire ground, where the *shoe-stitchers have extended.
1838Dickens O. Twist xxvi, Here, the clothesman, the *shoe-vamper, and the rag-merchant, display their goods.
1657J. Watts Scribe & Let. Answ. Ep. Rdr. A 3 b, Thou Histiæus wast the Shoemaker, but Aristagoras was the *Shoewearer.
1902Munsey's Mag. XXIV. 854/2 After a year of constant *shoe wearing, the gravel hurt her feet.
1888Philadelphia Ledger 23 Nov. (Cent.), The *shoe-workers' strike and lock-out.
c. Special comb.: shoe-beak = shoe-bird; shoe-bench U.S., a shoemaker's bench; shoe-bill, (a) = shoe-bird; so shoe-bill(ed) stork; (b) a kind of nail used in shoemaking; shoe-binder (see quot. 1858); so shoe-bindery, shoe binding; shoe-bird, a bird, Balæniceps rex, found in Central Africa; shoe-block (see quot.); shoe-board, (a) a shoe-cleaner's bench; (b) a pedal of a silk-winding machine; shoe-boy, a shoeblack; shoe-brush, a brush for cleaning and polishing shoes; also attrib. of an object shaped like a shoe-brush; shoe buckle, a fastening for a shoe, in the form of a buckle, also an ornamental buckle worn on the front of a shoe; shoe-butt, thick leather (see butt n.11) for making the soles of shoes; shoe-button, a button used for fastening a boot or a shoe; freq. attrib. of a small expressionless eye; shoe-case, a saddle case in which one or more spare horseshoes are carried; shoe-cleaner = shoe-black; so shoe-cleaning n. and a.; † shoe clout, a cloth for wiping shoes; shoe-deep a. U.S., deep enough to cover a person's shoes; shoe-finder U.S., one who deals in shoemakers' tools and appliances; shoe findings pl., tools and material for shoemaking; shoe-flower Anglo-Indian, the flower of the Hibiscus Rosasinensis (Yule); shoe hairs pl., prepared bristles for shoemakers' use; shoe-hammer, a shoemakers' hammer with a broad convex face and wide thin peen; shoe-hand, a shoemaking operative; shoe-knife, a shoemakers' knife; shoe-lace, a lace used to fasten a shoe by passing it in and out through eyelet-holes; shoe-last = last n.1 2; also fig.; also used attrib. in Archæol. to designate or with reference to polished stone implements, flat on one side and curved on the other, found in the area of neolithic Danubian culture; shoe-latch, -latchet = latchet 1 c; shoe-licker fig., an abject sycophant or toady; shoe-lift = shoe-horn n. 1; shoe-lifter = prec.; hence shoe-lifter-like adj.; shoeman, (a) see quot. 1841; (b) one who makes or deals in shoes; shoe mercer, one who deals in shoemercery; shoemercery, laces, buttons, and other small wares of a boot and shoe dealer; shoe-nail, a nail used in fastening on the soles of shoes, also a projecting nail put in the soles of shoes to prevent slipping; shoe peg = peg n.1 2 d; shoe-piece, (a) (see quot. 1867); (b) a piece of wood at the back of a chair, supporting the splat; shoe pin = shoe-peg; shoe-plate (see quot.); † shoe-pride, ostentatious foot-wear (nonce-use); shoe-rag = shoe-clout; shoe-scraper = scraper 5; shoe-shine, shoeshine (orig. and chiefly U.S.), a polish given to shoes, esp. by a shoe-shiner; freq. attrib.; shoe-shiner, one who polishes shoes for money; shoesmith, a shoeing-smith (obs. or arch.); shoe-stirrup, a stirrup shaped like a shoe (Cent. Dict. 1891); shoe-stone (see quot.); shoe-stretcher (see quot. 1875); † shoe-thong, a leathern shoe-latchet; shoe-tie = shoe-string; shoe-tree = boot-tree (see boot n.3 8); † shoe-turner, the workman who ‘turns’ or cuts to shape the soles of shoes; shoe-valve (see quot.); shoeward adv., towards the shoe; adj. directed towards the shoe; shoe whang dial. = shoe-thong; shoe-wiper, a servant who cleans shoes. Also shoe-black, shoe-horn, shoe leather.
1869–73T. R. Jones Cassell's Bk. Birds IV. 59 The Whale-headed Stork, or *Shoe-beak (Balæniceps rex).
1841Knickerbocker May 362 A few weeks' rumination on the *shoe-bench, or cogitation on the tailor's board. 1891Harper's Mag. June 57/1 An express wagon was..loaded with the old shoe bench.
1861Geo. Eliot Let. 20 Feb. (1954) III. 381 There is a *shoe-bill, a great bird of grotesque ugliness. 1874tr. Brehm's Bird-Life 191 Balæniceps Rex, the Boot-bill, or Shoe-bill, as the Arab tribes of East Soudan call it. 1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 91 Nail manufacture... Shoe Bill, Cutter. 1957Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Zool. V. 111 (heading) The Pelecaniform characters of the skeleton of the Shoe-bill Stork. 1964E. A. Nida Towards Sci. Transl. iii. 40 A person points to the beak of a shoe⁓billed stork and says That's a big bill. 1975Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 17 Dec. 6/3 Shoebill stork..is one of only eight.
1809Longworth's New York Directory 227 *Shoebinder. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Shoe-binder, a female who attaches the leather or ribbon binding to a shoe.
1848in Amer. Industrial Soc. (1910) VIII. 200 *Shoe⁓bindery.
1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Charac. iv, Miss Evans..had adopted in early life the useful pursuit of *shoe-binding.
1861Petherick Egypt, etc. 475 Six *shoe-birds, so called by the Arabs, or royal balaeniceps.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 156 *Shoe-blocks are two single blocks, cut in a solid piece, transversely to each other.
1845Glance at Interior of China (Shanghae) 82 A couple of grooves, on which the *shoe-board is to rest. 1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. ix, Tom..sat down on the shoe-board, while the old man told his tale.
1724Swift Drapier's Lett. vii. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 137 If I employ a *shoe-boy, is it in view to his advantage, or to my own convenience? 1820Hogg in Blackw. Mag. VI. 392 He makes your homebred coxcomb look a shoeboy.
1740E. Purefoy Let. 8 Mar. (1931) II. x. 248, I received Mr Robotham's letter..with half a dozen of oranges, a dozen of Delft plates, & 2 *shoe Brushes. 1775Phil. Trans. LXVII. 12 This was done..with water and a stiff shoe-brush. 1968J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 185 For use in difficult angles an extra leggat is used, having a shoe-brush handle to make it easy to use in those awkard places.
1482in York Myst. Introd. 40 [Those that] maketh ffisshe-hukes or *shobakilles. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxix, A large pair of paste shoe⁓buckles.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Shoe-butts, stout leather suited for soles.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 525/2 Button Machine... No family should be without this machine..for putting on their own *shoe buttons. 1928E. O'Neill Strange Interlude v. 170 Lust ogling me for a dollar with oily shoe-button Italian eyes! 1973‘A. Gilbert’ Is she Dead Too? (rev. ed.) ii. 29 Her eyes round and hard as shoe buttons.
1854R. S. Surtees Handley Cross xxxii, A sandwich-case for one side, and a *shoe-case for t'other.
1725De Foe [‘A. Moreton’] Every-Body's Business title-p., A Proposal..for clearing the Streets of those Vermin call'd *Shoe-Cleaners.
1716Gay Trivia Index, *Shoe⁓cleaning Boys. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxii, That very cloakbrushing, shoe-cleaning fellow..my lord's lackey.
c1425? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1274 Syr ye do me wrong..to put thys creature..to be her vnderlowte, As hit were a castaway or a *shoo clowte. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. iv. vii. (1852) 613 Some greasy dish-clout, or some dirty shoe-clout.
1773P. V. Fithian Jrnl. 28 Dec. (1900) I. 75 Last night there fell a snow, which is about half *Shoe-deep. 1891M. E. Wilkins New England Nun 174 There had been a light fall of snow..but it was not shoe-deep.
1909Boston (Mass.) Transcript 19 July 14/5 The National Leather and *Shoe Finders' Association.
1836in Amer. Industrial Soc. VI. 37 *Shoe findings.
1814J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 176 They are also put to a use which seems little consistent with their elegance and beauty, that of blacking shoes, whence their names of rosæ calceolariæ and *shoe-flower. 1834G. Bennett Wanderings II. 203 The Malays use the flowers of this shrub for cleansing shoes... This is probably the cause of its being called the shoe-flower.
1859F. S. Cooper Ironmongers' Catal. 160 *Shoe Hairs... Shoe Knives.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Shoe-hammer. 1859*Shoe-knife [see shoe hairs above].
1647Hexham i, A *shoe-lace, een schoe-lint, ofte schoe-riem.
Ibid., A *shoe-last, een schoe-leest. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xi. (ed. 3) 102 An instrument..proposed for the purpose of making shoe⁓lasts. 1879G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 76 Look upon them [sc. suggestions] as shoelasts on which to shape your final handiwork. 1927Peake & Fleure Priests & Kings vi. 126 They had..stone celts or hoes, among which is a type, not unlike that found in the Danube basin, known as the shoe-last celt. 1961G. Clark World Prehist. vi. 126 Boian pioneers..used a variety of stone tools, including adze-blades of bevelled and shoe-last form. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 210/2 Shoe-last adze or celt, a long thin stone adze employed by the Danubian farmers of the Early Neolithic, possibly as a hoe for cultivating their fields.
1884A. S. Swan Carlowrie i. 19 She was neat and smart, down to the very *shoe-latch.
1526Tindale Mark i. 7 Whos *shue latchett I am not worthy to stoupe doune and vnlose. 1535Coverdale Gen. xiv. 27 A shue lachet. 1611Bible Ibid.
1826Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 192, I challenge all his *shoe-lickers, all the base worshippers of twenty thousand acres, to show me [etc.].
1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xxvii. 55 This golosh..is put on without the aid of a *shoe-lift.
1846W. King in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. XVIII. 86 In this species [of Terebratula] the condyle plates are attached to a process, which, to use a homely comparison, resembles a *shoe-lifter. 1850― Permian Fossils 136 The shoe-lifter-like process.
1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 410/2 [Shoemaker's workmen:] The *shoeman or maker of the sole part of the shoe. 1899Howells Ragged Lady 59 The shoeman, turning with a pair of high-heeled bronze slippers in his hand from the wagon.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 76 *Shoe Mercer, Shoe Mercery Manufacturer.
1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xxvii. 48 Elastic webs, and *shoe mercery.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 480 Clauus caligaris *scohneᵹl. 1860Worcester, Shoe-nail, a nail used in making shoes. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 28 My guide first tried the slope alone; biting the ice with his shoe-nails.
1854Grace Greenwood Haps & Mishaps 13 The Yankee having whittled a large lot of unsaleable *shoe-pegs into melon seeds.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., *Shoe-piece, a board placed under the heel of a spar or other weighty mass, to save the deck. In some cases intended to slip with it. 1923J. C. Rogers Eng. Furnit. ii. ii. 63 The splat..rose from a shaped shoe-piece planted on the rear seat rail. 1969J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. (rev. ed.) 607 Shoe-piece, the shaped projection that rises from the back rail of a chair seat, into which the base of the splat is socketed.
1723Mandeville Fable of Bees (ed. 2) 275 A Cobler,..if he runs of Errands when he has no work, or makes but *Shoepins,..he deserves the Name of Industrious.
1904A. C. Holms Pract. Shipbuild. i. viii. §75. 79 In coasting vessels..the bottom of the keel gradually wears away... It is remedied by fitting *shoe plates, i.e. U-shaped plates embracing the keel.
1613Sylvester Lachr. Lachr. B 4, Stript from Top to Toe, Of guiddie-Gaudes,..Of Face-pride,..*Shoo-pride.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. K 1, Taffatie..which serueth him..for a *shoo-rag.
1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 169 Portable *shoe-scrapers of cast-iron.
1911H. P. Fairchild Greek Immigration to U.S. vii. 127 In 1904 there were but three *shoe-shine parlors in the hands of Greeks in the city. 1931Kansas City Times 29 Oct., Cecil, the Negro shoe shine boy at the City barber shop, has organized a band. 1957New Yorker 5 Oct. 35/1 President Romano,..resting tensely in his shirtsleeves, getting a shoeshine. 1958X. Fielding Corsair Country i. 20 Where's the nobility in..these importunate shoe-shine boys? 1976National Observer (U.S.) 21 Feb. 4/2 Complaints about the all-female shoeshine parlors in Salt Lake City may diminish... The commissioners said that the parlors..must not allow the shoe shiners to mingle with the customers or sit on their laps.
1910Chambers's Jrnl. July 431/1 The hotel will not be bothered with boot-cleaning, that service being performed by the ‘*shoe-shiner’ in the basement. 1976Shoe shiner [see shoe-shine above].
1625Nottingham Rec. V. 103 Wee present Francis Levys, laborer, for vsinge the trade of a *shoesmithe..and nott being Apprentice. 1896A. Austin England's Darling ii. iii, Woodcraft and masonry, Shoesmith or wheelwright, all are one to him.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Shoe⁓stones, sharpening or setting-stones..for the use of shoe⁓makers, book-binders,..&c.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Shoe-stretcher, an expansible last for distending shoes.
c1000Ags. Gosp. John i. 27 Ne eom ic wyrðe þæt ic unbinde his sceo-þwang. c1200Ormin 10387 Þatt he ne wass nohht god inoh Cristess shoþwang tunnbindenn. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 137 Ac ich nam noht ne forðen wurðe þat ich un-cnutte his sho þuong.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. Induct. (1600) B, But that a Rooke in wearing..A yarde of *shooe-tie, [etc.]..should affect a Humor, O, 'tis more than most rediculous. [1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iv. iii. 18 Then haue we heere..braue Mr Shootie the great Traueller.] 1611― Wint. T. iv. iv. 611 Gloue, Shooe-tye, Bracelet. 1851Hawthorne Twice-told T. I. ii. 29 [She] blushes from topknot to shoetie, one universal scarlet.
1827Drake & Mansfield Cincinnati viii. 60 In the third story the manufacture of *shoe trees is carried on. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xxvii. 56 Boot and shoe trees.
1486Bk. St. Albans f. vii, A Plocke of *Shoturneris.
1858Skyring's Builders' Prices 100 Long Spindle, or *Shoe Valves. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Shoe-valve, a valve at the foot of a pump-stock, or at the bottom of a reservoir.
1607Markham Caval. vi. 60 Assoone as any naile is driuen in, you shall turne the point backe againe, downe to the *shooeward. 1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 163 He looked submission with a shoeward eye.
1691Nicholson Gloss. Northanhymbr. in Ray Coll. 148 *Shoe-whang, corrigia. 1894Northumbld. Gloss., Shoe-whang, shough-whaing, a boot lace, a shoe tie. Usually called a whang or whaing simply.
1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 19 Every Thing at free Cost, from a Steward, down to a *Shoe-Wiper.
▪ II. shoe, v.|ʃuː|
Pa. tense and pple. shod |ʃɒd|, rarely shoed |ʃuːd|. Forms: inf. 1 scóᵹan, scóᵹean, sceóᵹan, scóan, sceón, sceóian, 3 scheo, 3, 6 sho, 4 schoye, 4–7 shoo, 5 scho, 5–6 show, (5 schoyn), 6–7 shooe, shoue, (6 shu, schoe, schue, sue, sew), 6– shoe. pa. tense 1 scóde, 3 scoide, soide, 4 schodde, 9 shoed, 6– shod. pa. pple. 1 (ᵹe)scód, (ᵹe)sceód, 3 scod, sod, i-schud, iscod, 4 ischood, 3–4 i-schod, 3–6 schod, 4–6 shodd(e, (4–5 shood, schood), 5 y-shood, y-schod, schodde, 5–6 shode, 6 shoode, showed, shoyd, 7 shoad, shoud, 7–9 shoed, (7, 9 erron. shodden), 4– shod.
[OE. scóᵹan, corresp. to MLG. schoigen, schoien, schoen, Du. schoeien, OHG. scuohôn, scuohan (MHG. schuohen, schuon, mod.G. schuhen), ON. skúa (MSw. skoa, Sw., Da. sko):—OTeut. *skōhōjan, f. *skōho- shoe n.
The doubling of the d and the consequent shortening of the vowel in ME. schodde pa. tense, schodd pa. pple. (whence the mod. shod pa. tense and pple.) are anomalous. (An OE. example occurs in Wulfstan Hom. p. 173, Unsceoddum fotum.) Cf. MSw. skodde pa. tense, and Sw. skodd pa. pple. The case is parallel to that of fledde, fledd from flee v. (where Sw. also has the corresponding gemination).]
1. trans. To put shoes on (one's feet); to put on (one's) shoes; to clothe or protect the feet with shoes; to provide (a person, oneself) with boots or shoes.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. v. 44 Sceoᵹeað eowre fett. c1000ælfric Gram. xxvi. (Z.) 158 Calceo vel calcio ic scoᵹe me. c1000― Hom. (Th.) II. 382 Se engel cwæð, Begyrd þe, and sceo þe, and fyliᵹ me. a1225Ancr. R. 16 Þer efter scheoinde ou & cloðinde, siggeð Pater Noster & Credo. a1300Havelok 1138, I ne may hire fede, ne cloþe, ne sho. c1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 842 And shod he was..With shoon decoped, and with laas. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 411 They..gooþ i-hosed and i-schod. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xviii. xcvi. (1495) 842 Ofte apes shoo themself wyth shoon that hunters leue in certen places slyly. 1530Palsgr. 704/1, I shoo one, I put shoes upon his fete. 1599Thynne Animadv. 13 [Chaucer's name] signyfyinge one who shueth or hooseth a manne. 1794C. Pigott Female Jockey Club 195 Government..cannot spare wherewithall to keep the poor fellows feet properly shoed. 1846Mrs. Kirkland West. Clearings 10 The shoemaker..travels from house to house, shoeing the family. 1855Longfellow Hiawatha xv. 24 Shod with snow-shoes..Forth to hunt..went Chibiabos. 1910Nation 30 July 644/1 Women never learned to shoe themselves till they took to playing outdoor games with men.
Proverbial.1546J. Heywood Prov. i. xi. (1867) 32 But who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe. 1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 20 He ought to stop his eares..and to walke amongst them (as the saying is) shood amongest the thornes.
2. a. To provide (a horse, etc.) with a shoe or shoes. † Also with up. shod all round: completely shod.
c1205Lay. 22291 Heo wipeden hors leoue..heo sceren heo scoiden [c 1275 and soide hire stedes]. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 395 He..schodde his mules wiþ silver. 1435Coventry Leet-bk. 185 The smythes..shall..show straungers horsies as-well on Sondais as on othur weke-days,..apon the payn of xld. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §142 Gyue thy horse meate, se he be showed well. 1605Shakes. Lear iv. vi. 188 It were a delicate stratagem to shoo A Troope of Horse with Felt. 1639T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 290 You may shooe him up, but drive no naile at that place. a1648Ld. Herbert Autobiog. (1886) 205 He staid in the highway..until my horse was shoed. 1776Pennsylvania Even. Post 27 June 320/2 A Bay Mare,..a natural trotter, shod all round, remarkably bad to shoe behind. 1870Thornbury Tour rd. Eng. II. xxiii. 139 The forge of the blacksmith who shoed Tyrrell's horse. 1889F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 149 He shod her all round, and she never kicked once.
fig.1731–8Swift Pol. Convers. i. 95 Lady Smart. This is his Fourth Wife; then he has been shod round. 1788Grose Dict. Vulg. T. (ed. 2) s.v. Shod, A parson who attends a funeral is said to be shod all round, when he receives a hat⁓band, gloves, and scarf.
b. Phrases. to shoe the goose, gosling: see those words; similarly to shoe the gander, † shoe the daw. Also, † to shoe the goose (slang): to get drunk. to shoe the wild mare: see mare1 2 b.
1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. ix. E iij, All the reaste mighte blow their nayles, or go to shough the dawe. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. C 2 b, Galen might goe shooe the Gander for any good he could doo. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Bertrand, Deschausser Bertrand, to be drunke,..to whip the cat, shoo the goose.
c. To provide (a motor vehicle) with tyres of a specified type or quality. Cf. shoe n. 5 q.
1925Morris Owner's Man. p. lxx (Advt.), Every car is turned out in sound order and condition, shod with good tyres. 1971Drive Summer 121/1 The test car was shod with radial tyres. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 2 Nov. 15/3 Braking is by servo-assisted discs at the front and rear drums, with radial tyres as standard shoeing equipment.
3. a. To protect (the point, edge or face of a thing, esp. something made of timber) with a plate, rim, ferrule or sheath of metal, etc.
c1205Lay. 7831, & þa Bruttes..nomen longen ræftres..mid stronge irene heo weoren i-scod. 1496Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 290 Item, for..irne to Johne Lam, to scho the quhelis..xxvjs. 1531Lett. & Papers Hen. VIII, V. 183 To John Locker for sewing moulddes with ireon for the brykmakers. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Aries,..a great peece of timber shodde with brasse, in facion like a rammes heade. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xiii. 126 b, Bootes.. shodde vnderneath with yron. 1601Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 134, ij speades shoud with iren, ijs. 1618in Charnock Mar. Archit. (1801) II. 205 Shovells steele shodden. 1789Burns Capt. Grose's Peregr. vii, A broomstick o' the Witch of Endor, Weel shod wi' brass. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 303 The ends of the piles are cased or shoed with pointed iron. 1829Chapters Phys. Sci. 138 In the processes of hooping barrels, and shoeing wheels. 1869Rankine Machine & Hand-tools Pl. P. 21 These bars..are shod at their lower cutting ends with serrated or notched steel faces for chipping the stone. 1911Act 1 & 2 Geo. V, c. 45 §2 (4) The driving wheels of a locomotive..shod with diagonal crossbars of not less than three inches in width.
b. Naut. to shoe the anchor: (see quot. 1644).
1644H. Manwayring Sea-mans Dict. 3 The ground may be soft and ozie; In such places we use to shooe the Anchor, that is, to put boords to the flooke..and make it much broader. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789). 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
4. transf. To cover or protect as with a shoe or shoes.
1639Fuller Holy War iv. xiii. (1640) 191 The shores there being not shod against the sea with huge high rocks. 1807Prize Ess. & Trans. Highl. Soc. III. 448 The surface turfs are carefully laid aside, and after the peats are taken out, these turfs are brought back..and placed upon the part that was made bare. This operation is called shoeing the moss. 1837Longfellow Frithiof's Homestead 24 On a bear skin (the skin it was coal-black, Scarlet red was the throat, but the paws were shodden with silver), Thorsten sat.
▪ III. shoe, a. U.S. slang.|ʃuː|
[Origin obscure.]
Conforming to the dress, behaviour, or attitudes of students at exclusive educational establishments; acceptable to or commended by such people.
1962Punch 13 June 895/3 A girl at these institutions [sc. schools] must prove herself to be ‘shoe’—and woe betide her if her dress and manner don't manifest..‘shoeness’. 1973N.Y. Times Mag. 17 June 38/3 Perhaps it is significant that one favourite mode of protest in the fifties was satire. We—a lot of us—were cool, ironic, ‘shoe’. 1980L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 222/2 Shoe, adj. Top-drawer. Very acceptable.
▪ IV. shoe
obs. form of show n. and v., sow v. |