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dry-shod

WordNet
  1. (adj) dry-shod
    having or keeping the feet or shoes dry "a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod"
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. dry-shod
    Having dry shoes or feet.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Dry-shod
    without wetting the shoes or feet
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. dr['y]ge; cf. Dut. droog, Ger. trocken.

Usage in literature

The tide was out, and they could not get the little boat up near enough the shore to land dry-shod. "Cricket at the Seashore" by Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod. "The Negro and the Nation" by George S. Merriam

She held her cloak tightly round her, and her little feet, fairly well shod, slipped in and out on the dry frosty pavement. "Robert Elsmere" by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Tell her it is my command that she dip out the waters from the ocean bed so that I can ride over the bottom dry shod. "Tales of Folk and Fairies" by Katharine Pyle

Jack saw at once that the means were provided for passing over dry shod. "Camp-fire and Wigwam" by Edward Sylvester Ellis

I always go at my work dry shod. "Winning the Wilderness" by Margaret Hill McCarter

The burn was choked with fallen men and horses, so that folk might pass dry-shod over it. "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07" by Various

And now, by plain dint of hard spurring and whipping, Dry-shod we came where folks sometimes take shipping. "Old Roads and New Roads" by William Bodham Donne

It was generally a dry loam, and hence a horse though shod, upon the walk would make but little noise. "Campaign of Battery D, First Rhode Island light artillery." by Ezra Knight Parker

Now we can go dry-shod. "Eyes Like the Sea" by Mór Jókai

Usage in poetry
At God's command the restless waves
Obey the prophet's rod;
And, through the middle of the sea,
The people marched dry-shod.
"Where now the blending signs of sect
Would puzzle their assorter,
The dry-shod Quaker kept the land,
The Baptist held the water.
A Cobler liv'd--to tell I'm loth,
Who, with some credit, follow'd both.
He bent his back, he bent his leather,
To keep folks dry-shod in wet weather.