beef boot

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a boot or shoe of ox or buffalo hide, used by voyageurs, canoemen, settlers, etc., usually of local manufacture.

Quotations

<i>a</i>1880

[We wore] beef boots . . . patched on the legs with sundry pieces of leather. . . .

1930

The pillar of agriculture . . . thudded into the house in his big beef boots, solid symbols of progress themselves. . . .