toe
/toʊ/ verb C2- To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe.
- To touch, tap or kick with the toes.
- To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to. · to toe the mark
- To fasten (a piece) by driving a fastener at a near-45-degree angle through the side (of the piece) into the piece to which it is to be fastened. · The framers toed the irregular pieces into the sill.
- To mishit a golf ball with the toe of the club.
He/she/it toes · Past toed · Past participle toed · -ing form toeing
Verb forms
- Base form
- toe
- He/she/it
- toes
- Past
- toed
- Past participle
- toed
- -ing form
- toeing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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She shall come in with tip-toe tread,
He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar.
Here we had best on tip-toe tread,
But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
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