seaboot
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See also: sea-boot
English
Etymology
Noun
seaboot (plural seaboots)
- A waterproof boot for use on ships in bad weather.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher.
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
- Doubtless he had a middle because there was a shrivelled little voice pickled away somewhere in his vitals, but his sou'wester came so low and his sea-boots so high, the rest of him seemed negligible.
- 1956, William Golding, chapter 14, in Pincher Martin, Faber & Faber, published 2012:
- " […] You saw the body. He didn't even have time to kick off his seaboots."