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Eskimo boot
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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in the western Arctic, a mukluk (def. 1); in the eastern Arctic, a kamik.
Quotations
1768
A Person aboard had bought a Pair of Eskemaux Boots. . . .
1852
The Eskimo boots are also peculiar to the nation, being made of seal-skin so closely sewed as to be water-tight, and coming up to the hips like those used by fishermen in our own land.
1942
When you walk in a pair of Eskimo boots, you must remember that the ridges of rocky hills are too sharp for a boot to endure many miles without coming to pieces.