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"Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school."
"Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake."
"Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly."
"The finest gold among them is 100 touch, called Sycee, i. e. pure gold without alloy: so that if a shoe of gold touch 93, then it hath 93 parts of fine gold and 7 parts alloy."
"Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent."
""Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand.""
"The billiard cue stick was shod in silver."
"Gum got stuck to the bottom of my shoe."
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.
Common synonyms include: horseshoe, attire, bonnet, boot, boots, bota.
Gum got stuck to the bottom of my shoe.
Pronounced /ˈʃuː/.
From Middle English scho, sho, from Old English sċōh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh, from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabatēnum, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabatō, Spanish zapato (“shoe”), French sabot (“wooden shoe, clog”), Italian ciabatta). The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English scōn, scōum (“shoes”, dative plural) and scōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoes”). See also Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Bavarian Schuach, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish sko, Tocharian B skāk (“balcony”).