Would I had Kemp's shoes to throw after you. BEN JONSON. Perhaps Kemp was a man remarkable for his good luck or fortune; throwing an old shoe, or shoes, after any one going on an important business, being by the vulgar deemed lucky.
·pl of <<Shoe>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun ·pl The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata). ...
William Kemp, said to have been the original Dogberry in Much ado about Nothing, danced a morris fro...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose