ppl. a. [f. TOE sb. and v. + -ED.]
1. Having a toe or toes; mainly in compounds in which the first element specifies the number or kind of toes, as three-toed, black-toed. Of a stocking, Having separate divisions for the toes; of a clog, or the like, Having a (leather) toe-piece.
1611. Cotgr., Guillemot, a certain three-towed fowle.
1757. Jefferys, Collect. Dresses, I. 29. The Slipper resembles a toed Clog.
1772–84. Cook, Voy. (1790), I. 17. On the 25th this gentleman shot a black-toed gull.
1774. Trinket, 37. In her little black bonnet, India handkerchief, and toed clogs.
1880. Haughton, Phys. Geog., vi. 28. They … possessed five-toed fore and hind feet.
1895. Outing (U.S.), XXVII. 200/1. That old man, upon his old-fashioned, curly-toed skates.
1910. Daily Chron., 15 March, 7/4. The stockings were toe-ed.
2. Carpentry. Secured or joined by nails driven obliquely; also of a nail, driven obliquely.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., Toed (Carpentry), a brace, strut, or stay is said to be toed when it is secured by nails driven in obliquely and attaching it to the beam [etc.].
