well-shod, ppl. a.
| 1580 Blundevil Dieting of Horses xix. 15 First then see that he be well shod, that is to say, with shooes that be neither too short nor too long. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler 22 It ill becomes Christians any thing well-shod with the preparation of the Gospel, to meditate flight from their deare Countrey. 1782 Cowper Gilpin 82 Finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well⁓shod feet. 1916 Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) v. 227 He..passed out, his wellshod feet sounding flatly on the floor. |