Definitions for toe

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toe toe

Spelling: [toh]

IPA: /toʊ/

Toe is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in toe (eot).

Definitions for toe

noun

1. one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
2. an analogous part in certain animals.
3. the forepart of the foot or hoof of a horse or the like.
4. the forepart of anything worn on the foot, as of a shoe or stocking.
5. a part resembling a toe in shape or position.
6. Railroads. the end of a frog in front of the point and in the direction of the switch.
7. Machinery. a journal or part placed vertically in a bearing, as the lower end of a vertical shaft. a curved partial cam lifting the flat surface of a follower and letting it drop; wiper.
8. Golf. the outer end of the head of a club.
9. Hector ("Toe") 1912–1995, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
10. James Hubert ("Eubie") 1883–1983, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
11. Robert, 1599–1657, British admiral.
12. William, 1757–1827, English poet, engraver, and painter.
13. a male or female given name.

Idioms

1. on one's toes, energetic; alert; ready:
2. step / tread on someone's toes, to offend (a person); encroach on the territory or sphere of responsibility of (another):
3. toe the line. line1 (def 83).

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a toe or toes.
2. to touch or reach with the toes:
3. to kick with the toe.
4. Golf. to strike (the ball) with the toe of the club.
5. Carpentry. to drive (a nail) obliquely. to toenail.

verb (used without object)

1. to stand, walk, etc., with the toes in a specified position:
2. to tap with the toe, as in dancing.

Origin of toe

before 900; Middle English; Old English tā; cognate with Dutch teen, German Zehe, Old Norse tā

Examples for toe

He knew that make of gun from toe to foresight; he could assemble it in the dark.

When there is a Point at the end of the sinking Mark, it shews, that the toe must be bent downwards.

So what if you can barely twitch a toe let alone move a leg?

The Little Doctor stopped the hammock with her toe and sat up.

"I see," said Peter, deeply interested in the toe of his shoe.

He picked up the bridle-reins, caught the saddle-horn, and thrust his toe into the stirrup.

“James Woods refuses to toe the Hollyweird line,” Twitchy managing editor Lori Ziganto told The Daily Beast in an email.

“I would just say that we've put our toe in the water,” she told me.

But Republican elected officials tend not to toe the conservative line, in part for political reasons.

These self-dubbed gear heads go toe to toe (or perhaps more accurately, crash to crash), with the men in the sport.