field boot

noun

1. a close-fitting knee-length boot

Example Sentences

The strength of his sudden assault, which backed British advance elements 145 miles up the Mediterranean coast, set Britain's desert staff officers harder than ever at a tough job: outthinking as smart and resourceful a general as ever put foot in a field boot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another object thudded beside him—a leg, gray-clad and wearing a heavy field boot!

From Project Gutenberg

His servant drops a field boot on to my stomach, trips over an empty biscuit-tin and is heard grooming a boot without.

From Project Gutenberg