The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dryfoot \Dry"foot\, n.
The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Usage examples of "dryfoot".
With a heartlessness at which I still shudder the creature used me as a bridge, and stepped across, dryfoot, on my back.
Swiftly down a long slope they hastened, and passed over the Brithiach, walking often dryfoot upon shelves of shingle, or wading in the shoals no more than knee-deep.
Jack, dryfoot and shod, stretched out at a fine pace, his eyes half-closed against the glare, and presently he reached the bottom of the bay and, above highwater-mark, the road.
Channel Passage, since men walked dryfoot from the points known to us as Dover and Calais.
This allowed them to walk out dryfoot with their guns and spyglasses, leaving Molina on a long tether among the clumps of spiny ichu grass.