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Noun
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.
A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
(card game) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
(architecture) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
(engineering) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib.
Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
