A patch or piece of leather used in the making or mending of boots or shoes. †Also, a patch of cloth or other material.

(under-, prefix1 affix 2b(b).)

A strip of leather or rubber placed under the quarter (quarter, n. 22c) of a boot or shoe, to make it level before the lifts of the heel are attached.

In many technical applications. A projecting piece of leather or the like forming a tab or flap, or means of fastening; the strip of thin leather…

A loose fold or turned-down top of a high-topped boot. Obsolete (historical in later use).

A piece added to the sole of a shoe.

A cylindrical stick, long peg, or stopper, for closing and opening a hole bored in a vessel; hence, a hollow or tubular plug through which liquid…

(See quots.)

The part of a boot or shoe below the uppers; the sole, often including the heel and shank. Cf. bottom finisher n. bottom-scourer n. at compounds…

Shoemaking. A seam in a boot or shoe. Now Scottish and Irish English (northern).

Shoemaking. The lie or line of the upper edge of a counter (counter, n.6).

The piece of stiff leather forming the back part of a shoe or boot round the heel.

(a) The inner sole of a shoe or boot. (b) A flat piece of warm or waterproof material laid inside the shoe.

technical. (See quots.)

A piece of leather or other material running round the lower part of a boot or shoe above the sole (sometimes as an additional covering or edging).

On an ice skate: a plate attaching the blade to the heel of the boot. Also: a similar plate on the frame of a roller skate.

An extra layer added to the heel or sole of a shoe or a device worn in a shoe to make the wearer appear taller.

concrete. (See quots. and fox, v. 6.)

Shoemaking. Curvature or rise in the toe of a last (last, n.1 2a) which creates elevation of the toe of a shoe or boot; a steel support within the…

Originally and chiefly North American. A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, often in a colour which contrasts with the main body.