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Definition of Shoe lace
1. Noun. A lace used for fastening shoes.
Terms within: Aglet, Aiglet
Generic synonyms: Lace, Lacing
Group relationships: Shoe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoe Lace
Literary usage of Shoe lace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Soldier's Foot and the Military Shoe: A Handbook for Officers and by Edward Lyman Munson (1912)
"A knot in the shoe lace may cause it. The relatively small number of eyelets in the
... The shoe lace used should be broad and flat, and attention given to ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"He can dress and feed himself; can use spoon but cannot tie shoe-lace. He brings
in wood, helps his father feed stone- crusher, hoes, etc. ..."
3. American Observer Medical Monthly (1873)
"In applying it, run a shoe-lace or cord through the holes on the under edge of
the splint, and lace it like a shoe, tying the ends of the lace together ..."
4. Inventions: Their Development, Purchase and Sale by William Edward Baff (1920)
"The inventor of an improved shoe lace wrote and sent samples of his product ...
It is admitted the results were disappointing; but if the shoe lace had been ..."
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