The toeing knife cannot leave a finished level bearing surface, and its work has to be completed by a few strokes of the rasp.
The Instruments= used to prepare a foot for shoeing are a rasp, a drawing knife, and a toeing knife.
The toeing knife usually consists of about a foot of an old sword-blade.
The dock rat was tip-toeing about the bed, like a starved rodent outside a wire-screened piece of food.
He ceased his tip-toeing about and looked at the Boss.
They and the black boys and girls are all toeing and heeling it together.
Won't I be after setting them toeing and heeling it when we get back to Ballinahone!
A returning player takes his place at the head of the line, toeing the line, the file moving backward one step to make room for him.
One player from each row of seats takes his place toeing this line.
If there be a large number, they form in competitive files as for a relay race, the leaders of each division toeing the line.
Each player, on returning to the starting line, should touch the hand of the next player in his file, who should be toeing the line ready to start, and should begin jumping as soon as his hand is touched by the return player.
Each group in turn is divided into two divisions, which stand facing each other in single file, with the leader of each division toeing a starting line.
The first player of each file stands toeing the starting line, and at a signal runs forward to the goal, touches it with his hand if it be a wall or fence, or with his foot if it be a line on the ground, or runs around it if it be an object.
By toeing in Merton now succeeded in walking without disaster, though he could not feel that he was taking the free stride of men out there in the open spaces.
The nurses tiptoed from the room, to return, tip-toeing to the bed to see how he was resting, then returning to the kitchen to advise the anxious ones there that he was resting easy.
Tip-toeing across the room he stumbled over an object on the floor causing a great racket.
But presently Missy heard the sound of tip-toeing steps, and lifted a corner of the towel from off her eyes.
Without any definite plan, but still tip-toeing in the manner she and grandma had approached to overhear the law-suit, she moved toward the partly-closed door.
Technique of the step backward: Start the foot with a glide, letting it rise from the floor toward the end of the step, meanwhile toeing inward; plant the foot squarely to the rear of the supporting foot.
A distinctly Oriental mannerism is its quick shift of the foot, just as it is placed on the floor, from the customary position of toeing out to a position of toeing in.
The convention of “toeing out” has as an object the showing of ankles and legs to the best advantage.
After a long silence, they could hear footsteps tip-toeing on the bricks outside.
After that all was silent once more, and Jerry came tip-toeing aft to whisper in my ear: "Do you think Darius managed to give them the slip, or did they capture him?
It was just when I believed we were close upon the spot where the Avenger should be stopped, that Jerry came tip-toeing aft, waving his arms to attract our attention.
Captain Eph did not venture to make any reply; but at the first opportunity followed Mr. Peters up the stairway, tip-toeing through the apartment where the lad lay asleep, and making no halt until gaining that floor known as the lantern deck.
Having heard no sound, he pushed open the door, closed it noiselessly behind him, then went tip-toeing softly up the steps.
Tip-toeing to a position which gave him a side view of the still motionless figure, he stared for a second, then there came upon his face an unmistakable smile as he exclaimed: "Pant!
As for Mazie, being actually confident of her discovery of the person and supposing as a matter of course that Johnny would follow her, she had gone tip-toeing in the opposite direction.
Mr. Ward had a curious way of walking on his toes; he came into the room as though tip-toeing across some muddy crossing on a wet day, and shook hands with a degree of nervousness that made even Mrs. Jamieson appear bold.
The furniture was brought down from the spare bedroom by the maids, who walked the heavier pieces in front of them with a curious tip-toeing movement of the castors of the several easy-chairs.
It was only when the maid, who was not in on the secret, bolted into the room to turn down his bed for the night, that she found him tip-toeing about, packing and unpacking his bag and listening eagerly at the wall.
The three little blue-clad girls stood toeing in, dangling their cotton-gloved hands.
Clinching is better for anything that is to be slammed or subjected to violent treatment, while in many cases toeing is better, and frequently you cannot reach the points of the nails to clinch them.
But Miss Raven smilingly motioned him to be seated and silent, and Lorrimore, with a glance at him which a judge might have bestowed on some belated counsel who came tip-toeing into his court, went on.
In the evening I would have to stand one hour on the quarter-deck, toeing one of the seams.
On our arrival all had to go on deck and stand in a line toeing a seam, to be searched for smuggled liquor by the ship's corporal, the lieutenant looking on.
While we were doing the seam-toeing act he came on deck and ordered us to get into the new gig and pull around the ship, so that he could see how it set in the water.
Standing as before and still "toeing the mark," Walter told his story again, simply but forcefully.
I saluted and toed the mark, and kept toeing it until I left.
I thought he was a sneak or something by the way he was tip-toeing around here.
He went hesitatingly up to his grandfather, and stood still, his poor little smarting feet toeing in, after a fashion they had, when tired, the pail full of berries dangling heavily on his slight arm.
Patience stood with her neat little shoes toeing out on the crack.
The next instant she was tip-toeing her way softly in and out among the innumerable piles of boxes, bags and crates that extended on and on into the impenetrable darkness.
Clayton came in while Justin was tip-toeing before the book shelves.
Toeing out, whether walking or standing, so commonly noted among girls and women, places a great strain upon the arches of the foot.
Sidenote: Toeing Straightforward] Weak feet are gradually converted into flat feet by faulty standing and walking posture and lack of leg exercise.
Unless "toeing out" is corrected by exercise and a proper shoe, an arch brace will do more harm than good.
The correction of this fault by persistent toeing in, Indian fashion, and daily exercise of the leg muscles (rising on the toes twenty to forty times night and morning), will do much to prevent flat foot.
Sidenote: Corrective Exercises for Flat Foot] Draw two parallel chalk lines about three-fourths the length of one foot apart and practise walking on them until the habit of toeing straight is acquired.
The odd trick of throwing his right leg out and around as he walked and toeing in with the right foot!
He had an odd way of walking, the Worm, throwing his right leg out and around and toeing in with his right foot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toeing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
