Shoemaker: alternatives and connections

A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes…

With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?

One who blacks boots.

Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.

A device for pulling off boots.

A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

Fitted with, or wearing, shoes.

Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.

To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.

To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.

A rustic high shoe or half-boots.

Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the…