sandal

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Same as sendal.
• noun A long narrow boat with two masts, used on the Barbary coast.
• noun Same as sandalwood.
• noun A kind of shoe, consisting of a sole fastened to the foot, generally by means of straps crossed over and passed around the ankle.
• noun A half-boot of white kid or satin, often prettily embroidered in silver, and laced up the front with some bright-colored silk cord. They were cut low at each side to display the embroidered clock of the stocking.
• noun A tie or strap for fastening a slipper or low shoe by being passed over the foot or around the ankle.
• noun An india-rubber overshoe, having very low sides and consisting chiefly of a sole with a strap across the instep.
• noun In heraldry, a bearing representing any rough and simple shoe. Also called brogue.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Sandalwood.
• noun Same as sendal.
• noun A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper.
• noun A kind of slipper.
• noun An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot