A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place.
Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
To use a shoehorn.
To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.
That part of a shoe or sock covering the toe.
An advanced form of ballet primarily for the females, dancing ballet primarily using a Pointe shoe.
An equivalent part in an animal.
The upper end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the heel (lower end).
Each of the five digits on the end of the foot.
Something resembling a toe, especially at the bottom or extreme end of something.
An alignment of the wheels of a road vehicle, either positive (toe in), meaning the wheels are closer together at the front than at the back, or negative (toe out), the other way round.
The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
The long side of an angled cut.
A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, such as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
cameltoe
To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe.
To touch, tap or kick with the toes.
To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to.
To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club.
To fasten (a piece) by driving a fastener at a near-45-degree angle through the side (of the piece) into the piece to which it is to be fastened.