gumboots

• “Giving the workers knee-high rubber boots, known as gumboots, proved a cheap alternative for the white mine owners than draining the water.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2001

• “The "gumboots" were also boiled, and found to be as rubbery as the name implied.”

  Where the Sun Swings North

• “Her sister could not eat the tough "gumboots" and her only nourishment was obtained from bread and black coffee.”

  Where the Sun Swings North

• “gumboots," making a desultory search for pay-sand, which no one had seen for weeks.”

  Where the Sun Swings North

• “But he responded to the idea of a walk in the water meadows—a favourite walk of his, though he made a face when I put my gumboots on before starting.”

  Simon & Schuster: Henry’s Demons

• “Did we see a BBC reporter up to their gumboots in a snowdrift.”

  Open Thread

• “Deinacrida rugosa are gentle giants - herbivores far less ferocious than the smaller tree weta we find in our garages, gardens and gumboots!”

  Archive 2007-02-01

• “She follows in the gumboots of Eleanor Roosevelt who dug for victory during World War Two.”

  Barack Obama

• “Amanda would ride with everybody else and I would follow on foot, in a sopping-wet parka and gumboots, counting the minutes until we could go inside the big old manor house and have tea and chocolate digestives by the fire.”

  Simon & Schuster: The English American

• “I'm picturing the entire party wearing wedding finery and gumboots, mud up to their knees, and brandishing paddles while dancing a pagan dance.”

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