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A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft.

curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " The port . . . crooketh like a bow." Phaer. Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. Camden.

To pull off shoes or sandals from. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

o curves meeting in an angle. -- Edge plane. (a) (Carp.) A plane for edging boards. (b) (Shoemaking) A plane for edging soles. -- Edge play, a kind of swordplay in which backswords or cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point, is employed. -- Edge rail. (Railroad) (a) A rail set on edge; -- applied to…

etal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.

A shoemaker's awl. [Prov. Eng.]

A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.

A cloth fabic for shoes, etc. See Lasting.

To deprive of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.

The act of depriving or divesting of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.

A shoer of horses

The art of shoeing horses.

pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

ly in lighthouses. Knight. -- Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keen him from slipping. -- Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold. The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it…

ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.

A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.