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snowshoe ((n.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
one of a pair of webbed frames for walking on top of deep snow.
Quotations
1680
Mar. Letton to Deliver 4 dressed Mouse skins to Thos. Garland to make Snowe Shooes.
1760
The texture of the raquette or snow-shoe, consists of straps of leather about two lines in breadth, bordered with some light wood hardened in the fire.
1872
The moose, being started from his yard, is followed by the men on snow shoes, sometimes accompanied by dogs, who head the animal and bring him to bay.
1966
[He] went out on his snowshoes to check some sets he had made for rabbits . . . on the south shore of Lake Athabasca.
2n.
a circular snowshoe fitted to horses that have to work in snow.
See: horse snowshoe
Quotations
1964
[Caption] When the snowshoe comes loose, intelligent horses stop until it is adjusted
3n.
a type of warm knee-high boot worn by the Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. [See picture at mukluk.]
See: mukluk
Quotations
1960
"We call these snow shoes but white people call them mukliks," he said.
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