dry-shod
Americanadjective
Etymology
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
Example Sentences
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But in either case, says Toynbee, she will only transform her lake into a road and let in the "landlubber dry-shod."
From Time Magazine Archive
Barges were coming in to Japanese jetties now, landing the troops dry-shod.
From Time Magazine Archive
All of Poseidon’s sons had the same power: they could run dry-shod on the sea as on the land, so the two followed her with no trouble.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
This work was completed in seven days, and the river was then allowed to return to its bed, and Semiramis could then pass dry-shod under water from one of her castles to the other.
From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby
Your veteran of three-score will step softly and dry-shod around the quagmire in which your hair-brained youth of sixteen plunges head and ears.”
From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay
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