The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dry-shod \Dry"-shod`\, a. Without wetting the feet; having or keeping the feet or shoes dry; as, a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod.
Wiktionary
a. without wetting's one's shoes or feet. adv. without wetting's one's shoes or feet.
WordNet
adj. having or keeping the feet or shoes dry; "a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod"
Usage examples of "dry-shod".
And he walked across the Ister dry-shod, and away through the moors and fens, day and night toward the bleak north-west, turning neither to the right hand nor the left, till he came to the Unshapen Land, and the place which has no name.
These portages, or carrying paths, which differ from the trails of the wood runners in that they are but short interruptions of the water paths and were not designed or laid out, as a rule, by the wild engineers of the forests and prairies but by human feet, lie across the great highway along which, before the days of canals, one might have walked dry-shod from the Atlantic to the Pacific--between the basins of the St.
Or they asserted that all those landlubberly creatures had walked dry-shod across a natural bridge or had swum short distances between stepping-stones, and that one such formation or another had since disappeared beneath the waves.