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high-shod
† ˈhigh-shod, -shoed, a. Obs. Wearing high shoes; hence, rustic, boorish. (See next.)1656 J. Harrington Oceana (1771) 152 (Jod.) Your high-shod prerogative and those same slouching fellows, your tribuns. 1693 Dryden Persius (1697) 478 The high-shoo'd Ploughman. a 1716 South Serm. (1717) IV. 497 Who....
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high-low
high-low (ˈhaɪləʊ) [f. high a. + low a.; in contrast to ‘top’ boots and ‘low’ shoes respectively.] (Usually pl.) A boot laced or otherwise fastened up in front and reaching up over the ankle.1801 Bloomfield Rural T. (1802) 8, I won the High-lows out and out. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Highlows, a ...
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shod
▪ I. shod, n. Sc. and north. (ʃɒd) [f. shod ppl. a.] 1. A plate of iron fastened upon the heel of a shoe to protect it from wear; a heel-tip; more fully heel-shod.c 1840 in A. Trotter E. Galloway Sk. (1901) 102/1 There's a' things in the Jangle Box, Brass, airn, and tin, and shods o' shoon. 1912 A. ...
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shoed
shoed, ppl. a. (ʃuːd) [f. shoe n. or v. + -ed.] Furnished or protected with a shoe or shoes; shod. See also slip-shoed a. and high-shoed var. of high-shod.1601 Will of W. Snawdon of Winterton, Lincs., One shoed waine with the furniture belonging to it. 1612 Inv. in Antiquary (1906) Jan. 28 A shoed s...
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