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snowshoe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snowshoe \Snow"shoe`\, n. A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.
Wiktionary
n. A flat item of footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow. vb. (context intransitive English) To travel using snowshoes.
WordNet
n. a device to help you walk on deep snow; a lightweight frame shaped like a racquet is strengthened with cross pieces and contains a network of thongs; one is worn on each foot
v. travel on snowshoes; "After a heavy snowfall, we have to snowshoe to the grocery store"
Wikipedia
A pair of modern snowshoes
Traditional snowshoe
A snowshoe is footwear for walking over the snow. Snowshoes work by distributing the weight of the person over a larger area so that the person's foot does not sink completely into the snow, a quality called "flotation". Snowshoeing is a form of hiking.
Traditional snowshoes have a hardwood frame with rawhide lacings. Some modern snowshoes are similar, but most are made of materials such as lightweight metal, plastic, and synthetic fabric. In addition to distributing the weight, snowshoes are generally raised at the toe for maneuverability. They must not accumulate snow, hence the latticework, and require bindings to attach them to the feet.
In the past, snowshoes were essential tools for fur traders, trappers and anyone whose life or living depended on the ability to get around in areas of deep and frequent snowfall, and they remain necessary equipment for forest rangers and others who must be able to get around areas inaccessible to motorized vehicles when the snow is deep. However, snowshoes are mainly used today for recreation, primarily by hikers and runners who like to continue their hobby in wintertime. Snowshoeing is easy to learn and in appropriate conditions is a relatively safe and inexpensive recreational activity. However, snowshoeing in icy, steep terrain can be more dangerous.
Snowshoe can refer to
- Snowshoe, a type of footwear.
- Snowshoe, Michigan, a town in Michigan, United States.
- Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania, a town in Pennsylvania, United States.
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Snowshoe, West Virginia, a town in West Virginia, United States.
- Snowshoe Mountain, a ski resort near this town.
- Snowshoe (cat), a breed of cat.
- Snowshoe Hare, a type of hare.
- Snowshoe Thompson, the father of California skiing.
- VSR SR-1 Snoshoo, an American Formula One racing aircraft
Usage examples of "snowshoe".
The carriage that Cabot engaged to carry him across to the city cost him his last cent of money, but he knew it was well worth it when, still in furs and with his snowshoes still strapped to his back, he entered the Gotham building.
Near the end of their march, they were able to abandon their snowshoes, but it became necessary to detour around peatlands, where the remaining snow was underlain with a foot or so of icewater.
Great Slave Lake, he was snowshoeing to a number of Indian camps to collect furs, and had under his command several Indians in charge of his dog-trains.
One day when Oo-koo-hoo was snowshoeing across a beaver meadow, his dogs, having gained the wooded slope beyond, began racing about as though they had scented game and were trying to connect a broken trail.
It sure beat walking, I can tell you, even though I liked walking and snowshoeing better, when it was time for them.
But there had to be something to do, instead of just snowshoeing and nothing else, so I took to chucking the spear.
Besides watching the Eskimo prepare for the winter and picking up many words of their language, Cabot took daily lessons in snowshoeing and the management of dog teams, in both of which arts White was already an adept.
Griffin was outside in time to strap on snowshoes, as Micah was doing, and shoulder several coils of the blue plastic tubing.
He finally agreed to go when I got up to eighty dollars, and just when I was sure that I was sending the poor son of a bitch out to freeze, he locked the money in that little metal coinbox he keeps in the bear cage, walked to his closet, and pulled out a pair of snowshoes and a fur coat that must have been made of forty sealskins.
The aluminum snowshoes were light and had steely-toothed crampons on the bottom that gripped snow crust well.
Like the snowshoes, long razor-sharp steel teeth stuck out from the bottoms of the crampons, but these teeth were longer and sharper, made for ice.
The crampons had an extra pair of teeth the snowshoes did not have and they jutted straight out from the toe at ninety-degree angles.
Then with infinite patience he built a fire with splinters that he cut from dead boughs, hung his blanket in front of it on two sticks that the flame might not be seen, took off his snowshoes, leggins, and socks, and bared his ankles.
Jack slapped our snowshoes down, checked his watch, and touched my hair.
Wind in the trees roared like rushing water, drowning out the thump of our snowshoes slapping snow.