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Shoelaces, also called shoestrings (US English) or bootlaces (UK English), are a system commonly used to secure shoes, boots, and other footwear. They typically consist of a pair of strings or cords, one for each shoe, finished off at both ends with stiff sections, known as aglets .
Men's cap-toe Oxford shoe by Crockett & Jones. An Oxford shoe is a type of shoe characterized by shoelace eyelet tabs that are attached under the vamp, [1] a feature termed "closed lacing". [2]
In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together (or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to find the solution of the puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles , word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Plimsolls with elastic instead of laces A plimsoll , also spelled plimsole , [ 1 ] or pump [ 2 ] (also known as a gym shoe [ 2 ] [ 1 ] or a sandshoe [ 1 ] ), is a light sports shoe with a canvas upper and flat rubber sole .
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Wooden soled type English clogs Overshoes type of clogs with leather turnshoes (German), reconstruction of the Middle Ages. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a clog as a "thick piece of wood", and later as a "wooden soled overshoe" and a "shoe with a thick wooden sole".
Falling back on a word he had originally picked up from his Glasgow-native college roommate, he called it a "doobrie"—a British placeholder name, akin to "watchamacallit" or "thingy." (British media personality Kenny Everett had often used the word "doobrie" in this manner during the 1980s.) Although Clegg suspected his audience had mistaken ...