DCHP-3

gumboot

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a rubber boot, reaching to just below the knee.

See: gum ((n.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1860
At the Cariboo, gum boots were selling at $25 per pair. . . .
1909
The girlish figure of a teacher struggling through the awful mud in gum-boots indicates that we have not travelled beyond the range of the little red schoolhouse.
1955
That big Rooshin stands with his dirty gumboots on my outhouse seat.
1964
"He'll need socks, gum boots, work pants . . . hard hats, bone dry jackets. . . .
2n.

a long rubber boot reaching to the hips.

Other references to gumboots during the gold-rush days may well refer to hip-waders.

Quotations

1873
His large feet were encased in india-rubber boots . . . (called gum-boots in the vernacular), which covered the thighs and fastened around the waist.