DCHP-3

cork(ed) boot

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a strong boot the sole of which is studded with steel spikes, or caulks, used by loggers to keep from slipping on wet or sloping logs.

See: caulked boot(def. 1)

Quotations

1901
The Frenchman . . . bore him down and jumped with his heavy "corked" boots on his breast and face.
1912
This time it was by the river "boss" and his "gang" who came with their cant-dogs and pike-poles and cork-shoes, to roll in the saw logs and float them down . . . to the markets of the world. . . .
1965
George Street on a Saturday night is awash with visiting bushworkers, many of them still in hard hats or cork boots [...]