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footwear usually with wooden soles

footwear usually with wooden soles

A wooden shoe with a thick sole, formerly used as an overshoe; a clog.

A support placed under one shoe to equalize the length of the two legs, when one is shorter than the other, or when one is artificially lengthened by a brace or splint, as in the treatment of hip disease.

A wooden sole with an iron ring worn under the shoe to keep it from the wet: the base of a pillar.

Kind of shoe standing on an iron ring; base of a column.

A clog shod with an iron ring; the base of a column or pillar.

A wooden sole or sandal, with an iron ring beneath, worn by women under their shoes to protect the feet from wet; the base of a column or pillar.

n. [French] A clog of wood standing on a ring of iron, worn to elevate the feet from the wet;—the base or foot of a column.