wooden shoe

noun

1. sabot ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of wooden shoe¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

As some Frenchman has said, “The stairway of time is ever echoing with the wooden shoe going up, the polished boot descending.”

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A wooden shoe was one of the first things patented at Richmond.

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I cannot tell you all the things that found their way into that wooden shoe.

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The wooden shoe was lying where she had left it, but you could never, never guess what was in it.

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In the bottom of the box was a small wooden shoe, and though clumsy in comparison, yet evidently fashioned to fit a lady's foot.

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