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tripping (snow)shoe

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1896

. . . the snow was deep, and breaking trail excessively hard, especially with tripping-shoes on which you sank to the knee, and with the toe of which you barked your shins as you raised your foot after every step to shake off the shovelful of accumulated snow.

1896

There is a pair of small or "tripping" snowshoes . . . intended for use on hard snow, either upon Lake Winnipeg or in traveling behind a loaded sled through the bush.

1921

The other men wore Chipewyan "tripping shoes" about three feet long--the only style of Canadian snowshoes that are made in "rights and lefts."