spiked boot

Lumbering

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.

Quotations

1903

. . . a riverman and spiked boots and a saw-log can do more work than an ordinary man with a rowboat.

1945

. . . men walking over the loose timber, in their spiked boots, sorted out with their long pike-poles . . . the longer, thinner pieces. . . .