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ALL meanings of fill someone's shoes

shoe
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  • noun plural fill someone's shoes 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. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes an object or part resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes a horseshoe or a similar plate for the hoof of some other animal. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes a ferrule or the like, as of iron, for protecting the end of a staff, pole, etc. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes brake shoe. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes the outer casing of a pneumatic automobile tire. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes a drag or skid for a wheel of a vehicle. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes 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. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes the sliding contact by which an electric car or locomotive takes its current from the third rail. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes Civil Engineering. a member supporting one end of a truss or girder in a bridge. a hard and sharp foot of a pile or caisson for piercing underlying soil. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes a small molding, as a quarter round, closing the angle between a baseboard and a floor. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes the outwardly curved portion at the base of a downspout. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes a piece of iron or stone, sunk into the ground, against which the leaves of a gateway are shut. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes a device on a camera that permits an accessory, as a flashgun, to be attached. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes a band of iron on the bottom of the runner of a sleigh. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes Cards. dealing box. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes Furniture. a cuplike metal piece for protecting the bottom of a leg. a fillet beneath an ornamental foot, as a pad or scroll foot. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes Printing. a box into which unusable type is thrown. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes a chute conveying grain to be ground into flour. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes Carpentry. soleplate. 1
  • noun plural fill someone's shoes Nautical. a thickness of planking covering the bottom of the keel of a wooden vessel to protect it against rubbing. 1
  • verb with object fill someone's shoes to provide or fit with a shoe or shoes. 1
  • verb with object fill someone's shoes to protect or arm at the point, edge, or face with a ferrule, metal plate, or the like. 1
  • idioms fill someone's shoes drop the other shoe, to complete an action or enterprise already begun. 1
  • idioms fill someone's shoes 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. 1
  • idioms fill someone's shoes in someone's shoes, in a position or situation similar to that of another: I wouldn't like to be in his shoes. 1
  • idioms fill someone's shoes 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. 1
  • idioms fill someone's shoes where the shoe pinches, the true cause of the trouble or worry. 1
  • noun fill someone's shoes to take someone's place 0
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