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  • noun Plural form of gumboot.

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Examples

  • 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 2001

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

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

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

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

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

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

  • 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.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • 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.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • 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 2007

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

    Barack Obama 2009

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

    Open Thread 2009

  • 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.

    The English American Alison Larkin 2008

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  • A pair of large, waterproof (usually rubberised) boots.

    March 31, 2008