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beshoe

beshoe verb: to put shoes on; fit or furnish with shoes.

Verb

beshoe (third-person singular simple present beshoes, present participle beshoeing, simple past and past participle beshoed or beshod)

  1. (transitive) To put shoes on; fit or furnish with shoes.
    • But now the sight of Henscombe wheeling his beribboned, bebottled, beshoed barrow through the main thoroughfare of the metropolis awoke New York to a sense of the ridiculous reality.1908, The Scrap Book, page 532

Forms of beshoe

third-person singular presentbeshoes
present participlebeshoeing
past participlebeshoed
pastbeshoed
past participlebeshod
pastbeshod

Origin of beshoe

From be- (“on, onto, upon”) + shoe.

Words formed from beshoe

Questions about beshoe

What does beshoe mean?
Beshoe means to put shoes on; fit or furnish with shoes.
What part of speech is beshoe?
Beshoe is a verb.
What is the past tense of beshoe?
The past tense of beshoe is beshoed.

Words near beshoe in the dictionary

  1. beshlik
  2. beshliks
  3. beshmet
  4. beshmets
  5. beshod
  6. beshoe
  7. beshoed
  8. beshoeing
  9. beshoes
  10. beshone
  11. beshorn

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