pac N. Amer.
(pæk)
Also pack.
[Of Lenape (Delaware) Indian origin.]
a. A moccasin having a sole turned up and sewed on the upper; also applied to a heavy felt half-boot, worn by lumberers in winter. (See quots. a 1877 and 1961; cf. shoepack.) b. With initial apostrophe, ellipt. for shoepack.
| a 1877 Knight Dict. Mech. II. 1590/1 Pac; Pack, a moccasin having a sole turned up and sewed to the upper. Though now made of leather of various kinds, the pac, as used by the Indians of the Six Nations, for instance, was made of hide boiled in tallow and wax; or of tawed hide subsequently stuffed with tallow or wax. 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 715 Loggers' Footgear [Figures of] India-rubber brogan. Old-fashioned boot-pack. Modern rubber-soled boot-pack. Buck⁓skin and leather moccasin. 1922 Outing May 68/1 Footwear, pac boots 16 inches; rubber boots. 1931 ‘Grey Owl’ Men of Last Frontier 181 And here is where my hard-soled 'packs came in. 1944 Sears, Roebuck Catal. 345 Leather top work Pac... Not rationed... If you wear size 6½ or 7 shoe, order size 6 pac. 1961 Webster 1616/1 Pac also pack,..2. a laced heelless sheepskin or felt shoe worn inside a boot or overshoe in cold weather. 1973 B. Wright Four Seasons North 12 The trails are slippery in our rubber-soled pacs. |