Home › Words › C › crackowcrackowcrackow means A type of shoe worn in the Middle Ages, with a pointy pike.EtymologyInherited from Middle English crakou, crawcow, named after Cracow in Poland, where they were first worn in the 14th century.nounA type of shoe worn in the Middle Ages, with a pointy pike.e.g.“The crackows or piked shoes of Richard II. were rivalled in absurdity by the sleeves which came into fashion in the beginning of his successor’s reign, […]” — 1827, Emma Roberts, Memoirs of the rival houses of York and Lancaster, volume I, Harding and Lepard, page 242:The pike on this shoe.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.pigache 66% match — A shoe with a long pointed toe worn in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. vs crackow →poulaine 61% match — A long, pointed toe of a shoe, a style fashionable in the 14th and 15th centuries. vs crackow →bycoket 57% match — A type of medieval cap with a wide brim that comes to a point in the front and is turned up at the rear, originally worn by Western European nobility and royalty. vs crackow →shoepak 56% match — A heavy leather, ankle-high shoe, similar to a moccasin in that it lacks a separate sole. vs crackow →tackety 55% match — Hobnailed. vs crackow →calcagnetti 55% match — A type of Venetian platform shoe or chopine with an extremely tall wedge sole, popular among noblewomen. vs crackow →crocket 54% match — Any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture. vs crackow →calceus 53% match — A kind of low leather Roman boot or hightop shoe. vs crackow →