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

y 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 i…

nkle 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.

Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather.

A strip of material, as leather, running around a shoe at and above the sole, as for protection or ornament.

Davies. O sleep! it is a gentle thing. Coleridge. The gentle craft, the art or trade of shoemaking.

To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. Pope. We are graced with wreaths of victory. Shak.

essed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. -- Grain moth (Zoöl.), one of several small moths, of the family Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cereAlella), whose larvæ devour grain in storehouses. -- Grain side (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from wh…

An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks de…

To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

ock used in grubbing up roots, etc. -- Grub breaker. Same as Grub hook (below). -- Grub hoe, a heavy hoe for grubbing. -- Grub hook, a plowlike implement for uprooting stumps, breaking roots, etc. -- Grub saw, a handsaw used for sawing marble. -- Grub Street, a street in London (now called Milton Street), describe…

A rubber overshoe. [Local, U. S.] Black gum, Blue gum, British gum, etc. See under Black, Blue, etc. -- Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree (Xanlhorrhoea). -- Gum animal (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago. -- Gum animi or animé. See Animé.…

Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.

l.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.

A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.

A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.

One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.