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▸ noun: A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
▸ noun: (card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
▸ noun: Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
▸ noun: An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
▸ noun: An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
▸ noun: An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: 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).
▸ noun: (historical) An ingot of gold or silver shaped somewhat like a traditional Chinese shoe, formerly used in trade in the Far East.
▸ noun: The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
▸ noun: (by extension, slang) A pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
▸ noun: (slang) A fake passport.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To put shoes on one's own feet.
▸ verb: (transitive) To put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.
▸ verb: (intransitive, chiefly as past participle) To cover an object with a protective layer of material.
▸ noun: A surname.
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horseshoe,
brake shoe,
provide with shoes,
shoecover,
character shoe,
upper,
bar shoe,
shoetop,
boot,
footwear,
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