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noun

sabot (def. 1).

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Origin of wooden shoe

First recorded in 1600–10

Words nearby wooden shoe

wood engraving, woodenhead, wooden-headed, Wooden Horse, wooden Indian, wooden shoe, wooden spoon, wooden tongue, woodentop, woodenware, wood fern

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How to use wooden shoe in a sentence

As some Frenchman has said, “The stairway of time is ever echoing with the wooden shoe going up, the polished boot descending.”
Revolution and Other Essays|Jack London
A wooden shoe was one of the first things patented at Richmond.
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama|Walter L. Fleming
I cannot tell you all the things that found their way into that wooden shoe.
Boy Blue and His Friends|Etta Austin Blaisdell and Mary Frances Blaisdell
The wooden shoe was lying where she had left it, but you could never, never guess what was in it.
Christmas Stories And Legends|Various

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.
Uncle Terry|Charles Clark Munn