shoe

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A durable covering for the human foot, made of leather or similar material with a rigid sole and heel, usually extending no higher than the ankle.
• noun A horseshoe.
• noun A part or device that is located at the base of something or that functions as a protective covering, as.
• noun A strip of metal fitted onto the bottom of a sled runner.
• noun The base for the supports of the superstructure of a bridge.
• noun The ferrule on the end of a cane.
• noun The casing of a pneumatic tire.
• noun A device that retards or stops the motion of an object, as the part of a brake that presses against the wheel or drum.
• noun The sliding contact plate on an electric train or streetcar that conducts electricity from the third rail.
• noun A chute, as for conveying grain from a hopper.
• noun Games A case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time.
• noun Position; status.
• noun Plight.
• transitive verb To furnish or fit with a shoe or shoes.
• transitive verb To cover with a wooden or metal guard to protect against wear.
• idiom (the shoe is on the other foot) The circumstances have been reversed; an unequal relationship has been inverted.
• idiom (wait for the other shoe to drop) To defer action or decision until another matter is finished or resolved.

from The Century Dictionary.

• A dialectal form of she.
• To fit with a shoe or shoes, in any sense: used especially in the preterit and past participle.
• To cover or arm at a point, as with a ferrule.
• noun A covering for the human foot, especially an external covering not reaching higher than the ankle, as distinguished from boot, buskin, etc.
• noun A plate or rim of metal, usually iron, nailed to the hoof of an animal, as a horse, mule, ox, or other beast of burden, to defend it from injury.
• noun Something resembling a shoe in form, use, or position.
• noun A drag into which one of the wheels of a vehicle can be set; a skid. It is usually chained to another part of the vehicle, and the wheel resting in it is prevented from turning, so that the speed of the vehicle is diminished: used especially in going downhill.
• noun The part of a brake which bears against the wheel.
• noun An inclined trough used in ore-crushing and other mills; specifically, a sloping chute or trough below the hopper of a grain-mill, kept in constant vibration by the damsel (whence also called shaking-shoe), for feeding the grain uniformly to the mill stone. See cuts under mill.
• noun The iron ferrule, or like fitting, of a handspike, pole, pile, or the like.
• noun Milit., the ferrule protecting the butt-end of a spear-shaft, handle of a halberd, or the like. It is often pointed or has a sharp edge for planting in the ground, or for a similar use.
• noun In metallurgy, a piece of chilled iron or steel attached to the end of any part of a machine by which grinding or stamping is done, in order that, as this wears away by use, it may be renewed without the necessity of replacing the whole thing.
• noun A flat piece of thick plank slightly hollowed out on the upper side to receive the end of a sheer-leg to serve in moving it.
• noun The step of a mast resting on the keelson.
• noun The outer piece of the forefoot of a ship.
• noun In printing. a rude pocket attached to a composing-stand, for the reception of condemned type.
• noun In ornithology, a formation of the claws of certain storks suggesting a shoe.
• noun A broad triangular piece of thick plank fastened to an anchor-fluke to extend its area and consequent bearing-surface when sunk in soft ground.
• noun A sliding-contact device for connecting the moving car on an electric railway with the third rail or with an underground insulated conductor.
• noun In China, a silver or gold ingot said to be derived from the Dutch goudschuit, boat of gold, applied to the ingots imported from India into China in the seventeenth century.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on.
• transitive verb To protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip.
• noun A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.
• noun Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.
• noun A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.
• 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 an automobile or railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
• noun (Arch.) 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 (Milling.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
• noun An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.