Noun: toe
Sample Sentences
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An old traditional prescription for provoking erotic inclinations ran as follows, The toe of the foot of a man, anointed with oil, or honey, or the ashes of a weasel. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234:]
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Stumbling forward, Tal caught the toe of his boot on rock. [2004, Patricia Lucas White, Edwina Parkhurst Spinster:]
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(golf) the extreme end of the head of a club.
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(hurling) the end of a hurley.
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(cricket) the tip of the bat farthest from the handle
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(kayaking) the bow; the front of the kayak.
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(geology) a bulbous protrusion at the front of a lava flow or landslide.
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to have a lot of toe
Nouns inflected like toe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English to, from Old English tā, (Mercian) tāhe, from Proto-West Germanic *taihā, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ, from *tīhwaną (“to show, announce”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”).
2. Cognate with Dutch teen, German Zehe, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tå, Faroese and Icelandic tá; also Old English teōn (“to accuse”), German zeihen (“to accuse, blame”); see also Hittite [script needed] (tekkuššāi), Latin dīcere (“to say”), digitus (“finger”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “to point out, show”), Sanskrit दिदेष्टि (dídeṣṭi), दिशति (diśáti). See: Middle English Nouns '
to', Dutch Nouns '
teen', German Nouns '
Zehe', Latin Nouns '
dīcere'.