dry-shod

[ drahy-shod ]

/ ˈdraɪˌʃɒd /

adjective

having or keeping the shoes dry.

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Origin of dry-shod

before 1000; Middle English drye schodde, Old English drȳgsceod, equivalent to drȳg- dry + sc(e)od, past participle of scōgan to shoe, derivative of sc(e)ōh shoe

Words nearby dry-shod

dry-gulch, dry-nurse, dry-roasted, dry-rot, dry-salt, dry-shod, dry-stone, dry-wall, dryad, dryas, drybrush

Example sentences from the Web for dry-shod

I crossed it dry-shod at day-break, and now, it is a cataract.
The O'Donoghue|Charles James Lever
Besides, there's the ford: I doubt you could get over it dry-shod, and I shall have to go a couple of miles round.
Notwithstanding|Mary Cholmondeley
At low spring-tide you can walk, almost dry-shod, to the other side.
The Tale of Timber Town|Alfred Grace
They went carefully up over the rocks and stones, and deposited her, dry-shod.
Cricket at the Seashore|Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

The board was put down on the mud, and they walked ashore, dry-shod.
Fighting for the Right|Oliver Optic

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