Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "snow-shoe".
But his worst adventure--he seemed shy in telling it--was when he was caught without snow-shoes in an early fall blizzard, and crossed unknowingly a bottomless half-frozen sphagnum swamp which heaved under his tread and made him vomit up his soul.
She had never worn snow-shoes before, but they were reasonably self-explanatory, and after walking out of them a few times from misreading how the straps went, and then falling down a few times by misguessing how to walk in them, she grew adept.
Then after a gradual schuss down to the road they broke off to fix their snow-shoes by the light of a hazy moon.
With his mittens and his snow-shoes Vainly walked he through the forest, Sought for bird or beast and found none, Saw no track of deer or rabbit, In the snow beheld no footprints, In the ghastly, gleaming forest Fell, and could not rise from weakness, Perished there from cold and hunger.
With his mighty bow of ash-tree, With his quiver full of arrows, With his mittens, Minjekahwun, Into the vast and vacant forest On his snow-shoes strode he forward.
He went into business for himself in a modest way, and made a good turn in the manufacture of deerskin mittens and snow-shoes.
He could gain enough for all his needs by making snow-shoes and the deerskin mittens at home.
The journey down from the mountains had left its mark, for his face was scarred by patches of frost-bite, his lips were inflamed, the snow-shoes had made the calves of his legs ache like a bad tooth, and under his moccasins his feet were blistered.
Anthony Minne-wa'wa, a pleasant sound, as of the wind in the trees Mishe-Mo'kwa, the Great Bear Mishe-Nah'ma, the Great Sturgeon Miskodeed', the Spring-Beauty, the Claytonia Virginica Monda'min, Indian corn Moon of Bright Nights, April Moon of Leaves, May Moon of Strawberries, June Moon of the Falling Leaves, September Moon of Snow-shoes, November Mudjekee'wis, the West-Wind.
These so-called primitive people built impressive longhouses, manufactured excellent canoes and paddles, bows and arrows, snow-shoes, lacrosse sticks, spears, tomahawks, and war clubs.
There'll be skating and skiing and tobogganing and sleigh-riding, and all sorts of torchlight parades on snow-shoes.