[shoon] 
[shoo] noun, plural shoes, (especially British Dialect
) shoon; verb, shod or shoed, shod or shoed or shod⋅den, shoe⋅ing.| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | an object or part resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. |
| 3. | a horseshoe or a similar plate for the hoof of some other animal. |
| 4. | a ferrule or the like, as of iron, for protecting the end of a staff, pole, etc. |
| 5. | brake shoe. |
| 6. | the outer casing of a pneumatic automobile tire. |
| 7. | a drag or skid for a wheel of a vehicle. |
| 8. | 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. |
| 9. | the sliding contact by which an electric car or locomotive takes its current from the third rail. |
| 10. | Civil Engineering.
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| 11. | a small molding, as a quarter round, closing the angle between a baseboard and a floor. |
| 12. | the outwardly curved portion at the base of a downspout. |
| 13. | a piece of iron or stone, sunk into the ground, against which the leaves of a gateway are shut. |
| 14. | a device on a camera that permits an accessory, as a flashgun, to be attached. |
| 15. | a band of iron on the bottom of the runner of a sleigh. |
| 16. | Cards. dealing box. |
| 17. | Furniture.
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| 18. | Printing. a box into which unusable type is thrown. |
| 19. | a chute conveying grain to be ground into flour. |
| 20. | Carpentry. soleplate. |
| 21. | Nautical. a thickness of planking covering the bottom of the keel of a wooden vessel to protect it against rubbing. |
| 22. | to provide or fit with a shoe or shoes. |
| 23. | to protect or arm at the point, edge, or face with a ferrule, metal plate, or the like. |
| 24. | drop the other shoe, to complete an action or enterprise already begun. |
| 25. | fill someone's shoes, to take the place and assume the obligations of another person: She felt that no stepmother could ever hope to fill her late mother's shoes. |
| 26. | in someone's shoes, in a position or situation similar to that of another: I wouldn't like to be in his shoes. |
| 27. | the shoe is on the other foot, the circumstances are reversed; a change of places has occurred: Now that we are rich and they are poor the shoe is on the other foot. |
| 28. | where the shoe pinches, the true cause of the trouble or worry. |
| 1. | a rigid plate, usually of steel in the shape of an arc of a cylinder, coated on the outside of its curved surface with a friction-producing material and tightened against the inside of a brake drum to produce a braking action. |
| 2. | (on a bicycle) one of two metal blocks holding rubber pads that, when the hand brake is activated, press against the rotating wheel to produce a braking action. Compare caliper (def. 6). |
| a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer. |
| shoon (shōōn) n. Archaic A plural of shoe. |