<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(plural: shoes, especially British Dialect: shoon) an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.</li><li>an object or part resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.</li><li>a horseshoe or a similar plate for the hoof of some other animal.</li><li>a ferrule or the like, as of iron, for protecting the end of a staff, pole, etc.</li><li>brake shoe.</li><li>the outer casing of a pneumatic automobile tire.</li><li>a drag or skid for a wheel of a vehicle.</li><li>a part having a larger area than the end of an object on which it fits, serving to disperse or apply its weight or thrust.</li><li>the sliding contact by which an electric car or locomotive takes its current from the third rail.</li><li>(Civil Engineering) a member supporting one end of a truss or girder in a bridge.</li><li>a hard and sharp foot of a pile or caisson for piercing underlying soil.</li><li>a small molding, as a quarter round, closing the angle between a baseboard and a floor.</li><li>the outwardly curved portion at the base of a downspout.</li><li>a piece of iron or stone, sunk into the ground, against which the leaves of a gateway are shut.</li><li>a device on a camera that permits an accessory, as a flashgun, to be attached.</li><li>a band of iron on the bottom of the runner of a sleigh.</li><li>(Cards) dealing box.</li><li>(Furniture) a cuplike metal piece for protecting the bottom of a leg.</li><li>a fillet beneath an ornamental foot, as a pad or scroll foot.</li><li>(Printing) a box into which unusable type is thrown.</li><li>a chute conveying grain to be ground into flour.</li><li>(Carpentry) soleplate.</li><li>(Nautical) a thickness of planking covering the bottom of the keel of a wooden vessel to protect it against rubbing.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) shod or shoed, shod or shoed or shodden, shoeing.</li><li>to provide or fit with a shoe or shoes.</li><li>to protect or arm at the point, edge, or face with a ferrule, metal plate, or the like.</li></ul>