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cleaning shoes

cleaning shoes is the plural of cleaning shoe.

Meaning of cleaning shoe

Noun

cleaning shoe (plural cleaning shoes)

  1. The part of a harvester or combine which both sieves out large impurities such as rocks and blows out light impurities such as chaff.
    • The cleaning shoe expels lightweight material known as chaff as well as material with intermediate aerodynamic properties, such as straw, from the back of the combine.2003, William W. Casady, “Grain Harvesting Systems”, in Dennis R. Heldman, editor, Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering, →ISBN, page 449
  2. (machinery) A brake shoe used to clean a wheel.
    • After every test (except those at 30 mph) the wheel was cleaned by making two stops with cleaning shoes from a speed of 40 miles per hour.1913, Pennsylvania Railroad Test Dept., Brake Tests, page 245

Questions about cleaning shoes

What is cleaning shoes the plural of?
Cleaning shoes is the plural of cleaning shoe.

Words near cleaning shoes in the dictionary

  1. cleaning one's plate
  2. cleaning out
  3. cleaning rod
  4. cleaning rods
  5. cleaning shoe
  6. cleaning shoes
  7. cleaning sieve
  8. cleaning sieves
  9. cleaning someone's clock
  10. cleaning up
  11. cleaning up after

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