Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A buskin or half-boot.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of brodequin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A buskin or half-boot.
Examples
“She took her foot, which this time submitted, and, like a woman about to put on her brodekin, she adjusted it to her leg with great dexterity.”
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Boots
Types of boots used as footwear, or in a few cases, to protect the feet and legs of horses.
"...waterleg and gumboots each for Bully Hayes and Hurricane Hartigan..." --Finnegans Wakeankle-jack, jackboot, Hessian boot, Wellington boot, wellie, gumboot, galoshes, goloe-shoes, galosh, overshoe, galoche, galage and 73 more...
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End in -kin
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gherkin, merkin, firkin, malkin, pumpkin, bumpkin, pipkin, bodkin, napkin, mannikin, pigskin, sealskin and 83 more...
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