Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shoemaker"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)



9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also
the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

10. (Founding)
(a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the
metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern;
also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
(b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a
furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are
attached.

12. (Zo["o]l.) A food fish ({Elagatis pinnulatus}) of Florida
and the West Indies; -- called also {skipjack},
{shoemaker}, and {yellowtail}. The name alludes to its
rapid successive leaps from the water.

13. (Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.

14. (Mech.)
(a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or
polishing a surface of stone.
(b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for
polishing or grinding.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Shoemaker \Shoe"mak`er\, n.
1. One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.

2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The threadfish.
(b) The runner, 12.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

shoemaker
n : a person who makes or repairs shoes [syn: {cobbler}]


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