noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A foot-shaped device placed in a shoe to maintain its shape when not being worn.
2. 2
   a wooden or metal device that is inserted into a shoe to preserve its shape when it is not being worn wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

shoe treetree

Etymology

From shoe + tree.

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