gumboots

/ ˈɡʌmˌbuːts /

plural noun

1. another name for Wellington boots

Example Sentences

“The beauty of watercress is that you don’t need machinery or massive investment. It’s just you and a pair of gumboots and a knife,” says Charlton, who harvests around 30,000 bunches every year for sale to farm shops and restaurants in Paris.

From BBC

Guests and family members could be seen wading through floodwaters in gumboots and sandals at the Barasoain Church in Malolos.

From BBC

I was born a few miles north of Gulmarg and during my childhood in the early 1990s, I would trek miles with friends through knee-deep snow in long, black gumboots to watch foreign skiers — the vast majority of the visitors then — spill down slopes and race through the cedar trees.

From New York Times

“Sometimes I plant my crops expecting a rainy season, but instead there’s a drought and I lose my entire crop,” said the 59-year-old, his gumboots red with soil.

From Reuters

NAIROBI, Kenya — Health workers in lime-green scrubs and white gumboots danced, ululated and drummed on buckets in celebration as the woman they hoped would be the last patient treated for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo was released from a treatment center there in early March.

From New York Times