dry-shod

[drahy-shod]

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adjective

having or keeping the shoes dry.

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

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Historical Examples

I crossed it dry-shod at day-break, and now, it is a cataract.
The O'Donoghue
Charles James Lever
At low spring-tide you can walk, almost dry-shod, to the other side.
The Tale of Timber Town
Alfred Grace
The board was put down on the mud, and they walked ashore, dry-shod.
Fighting for the Right
Oliver Optic
With few clothes and only one pair of leaky boots it was impossible to keep warm and dry-shod.
Caught by the Turks
Francis Yeats-Brown
They went carefully up over the rocks and stones, and deposited her, dry-shod.
Cricket at the Seashore
Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

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Examples from the Web for dry-shod

Historical Examples

I crossed it dry-shod at day-break, and now, it is a cataract.

At low spring-tide you can walk, almost dry-shod, to the other side.

The board was put down on the mud, and they walked ashore, dry-shod.

With few clothes and only one pair of leaky boots it was impossible to keep warm and dry-shod.

They went carefully up over the rocks and stones, and deposited her, dry-shod.

Origin of dry-shod