a mold used for shaping or maintaining the form of shoes, often made of wood

a wooden block or mold shaped like a foot or head used for making, repairing, or shaping shoes or hats

a wooden block or mold used inside a shoe or hat to maintain its shape during production or storage; shoe last; hat block

(idiom) to expose or reveal shameful secrets; literally to move the shoe trees out (from a shoemaker's workshop) to show them all at once

a corpse; literally a "coffin shoe-tree" (comparing a stiff body in a coffin to a wooden shoe-tree in a shoe)

device placed inside a shoe to preserve its shape and prevent it from developing wrinkles

a wooden block shaped like a foot used for making or shaping shoes; last for shoes

(literary) someone who is impressive in appearance only but lacks actual talent or substance; a person who looks grand but is useless, like a donkey dressed up as a [[麒麟|麒麟|qi2 lin2]] in a play.