Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cleaning shoe

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables: clean-ing shoe
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The part of a harvester or combine which both sieves out large impurities such as rocks and blows out light impurities such as chaff.

noun

A brake shoe used to clean a wheel.

Example Sentences

"The cleaning shoe expels lightweight material known as chaff as well as material with intermediate aerodynamic properties, such as straw, from the back of the combine."
"After every test (except those at 30 mph) the wheel was cleaned by making two stops with cleaning shoes from a speed of 40 miles per hour."

Inflected Forms

cleaning shoes (plural)

Questions

What does cleaning shoe mean?: The part of a harvester or combine which both sieves out large impurities such as rocks and blows out light impurities such as chaff.

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