dry-shod

[ drahy-shod ]

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)ōhshoe

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How to use dry-shod in a sentence

A faint light was thus thrown upon the puddles, and those who were well acquainted with the street could pick their way dryshod.
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange Kielland
She could even make out a point where one might cross dryshod by leaping from rock to rock.
A Pagan of the Hills | Charles Neville Buck
We went on two miles to another sponge and village, but went round its head dryshod, then two hours more to sponge Lovu.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 | David Livingstone
St. Patrick, we are told, used his causeway to bear him dryshod as far as possible when he walked the waters to Ireland.
England, Picturesque and Descriptive | Joel Cook
The art consisted in keeping yourself dryshod, and yet it was the quickest boys who got wettest.
Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson Nexo

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