Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form made of wood, metal, or other inflexible material inserted into a shoe to stretch it or preserve its shape.
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- noun A foot shaped device placed in a
shoe to maintain its shape when not being worn.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wooden or metal device that is inserted into a shoe to preserve its shape when it is not being worn
- verb stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
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Examples
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I discovered that shoes could be stretched by: the shoemaker; a shoetree-like device bought by mail-order; by soaking new shoes in "shoe-stretch" and wearing them around the house with sweat socks, and I frequented depressing shoe stores that advertised specials for wide and long feet.
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Ordinarily vampires could take all I had to give and break me like a shoetree.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Ordinarily vampires could take all I had to give and break me like a shoetree.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Ordinarily vampires could take all I had to give and break me like a shoetree.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Any winged aircraft, from the smallest Cessna prop puppy to the biggest Boeing behemoth, was a romantic artifact, a swoozy sculpture, a sailing thing of irresistible appeal; but a helicopter ... a helicopter was like a funky old shoetree that a witch had caused to levitate.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Any winged aircraft, from the smallest Cessna prop puppy to the biggest Boeing behemoth, was a romantic artifact, a swoozy sculpture, a sailing thing of irresistible appeal; but a helicopter ... a helicopter was like a funky old shoetree that a witch had caused to levitate.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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He proceeded to the edge of the orchard where a stray shoetree had rooted.
The Source of Magic Anthony, Piers 1979
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Finally, invest in a wooden shoetree to preserve the shape of the shoe.
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