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Answer for the clue "Rubber ", 8 letters:
overshoe

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Word definitions for overshoe in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overshoe \O"ver*shoe`\, n. A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galosh.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1829, from over- + shoe (n.). Related: Overshoes .

Usage examples of overshoe.

There is the usual gleaming white oversuit - the thermal micrometeorite garment - with the lower legs and overshoes scuffed and stained with Tycho dust.

Moon suit out of the car, and hauled it on: first the cooling garment, then the pressure layer, and finally the white micrometeorite protector and his blue lunar overshoes.

And in the hall Hedwig heard her humming cheerfully as she put on raincoat and overshoes and made ready for a walk to town.

To walk from Milltown to Pelham Place in a heavy snow with no overshoes and no umbrella was just like her.

Out of the saloon he went and met Sylvester West the druggist stumbling along in the kind of heavy overshoes called arctics.

Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes, kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.

His blue overshoes, still stained dark gray from lunar dust, left crisp Moonwalk footprints in the damp sand of the beach.

There is the usual gleaming white oversuit-the thermal micrometeorite garment-with the lower legs and overshoes scuffed and stained with Tycho dust.

Croix-Rouge, put on her overshoes, that she had hidden in the morning under the seat, and sank into her place among the impatient passengers.

Longfellow girls rushed in from playing in the unexpected snow, pausing just long enough at the entrance hall to kick off their overshoes before scrambling over the sharply angled stairs.

Not everybody has overshoes and an umbrella, but everybody desires in some way, however small, to appear more important than his neighbor.

He did all a young lad should do--bought himself an accordion, a shirt with a starched front, a loud-colored necktie, overshoes, and a cane.

We peered into the hiding place under the back stairs, which contained a jumble of discarded overshoes and single mittens, and an umbrella with broken ribs.

I hobbled into the front room and collapsed onto the sofa, my overshoes and coat still on.

Black Douglas muttered in Signora Strega-Borgias ear, What dyou call a lawyer whos been chained, gagged and dropped in concrete overshoes into the sea?