dry-shod

American  

[drahy-shod] / ˈdraɪˌʃɒd /

adjective

1. having or keeping the shoes dry.

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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

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

For there were others, rounded domes of tide-washed rock, treacherous ledges, little craggy steeples, sloping shelves, which low water gave up to the sun and where a man might walk dry-shod.

From The House Under the Sea A Romance by Pemberton, Max, Sir

But between the streams were ridges and island-like tufts of moss and dried grasses, and stepping from one of these to the other, the little ones passed on, dry-shod.

From A Round Dozen by Coolidge, Susan