dog moccasin

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a simple leather or canvas bag tied on the feet of sled dogs to protect their paws.

Quotations

1867

[I always put on the dog's mocassins (merely bags made of leather or stout hide) if I anticipate rough travelling.]

1912

Smoke spent the morning in camp, sewing dog-moccasins and repairing harness.

1954

And if we lost dog moccasins that was the least of our worries--the trail was littered with them, scattered by those ahead of us.