dry-shod
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of dry-shod
before 1000; Middle English drye schodde, Old English drȳgsceod, equivalent to drȳg- dry + sc ( e ) od, past participle of scōgan to shoe, derivative of sc ( e ) ōh shoe
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
She just sent one keen look at the girl's flushed face, and then said: "It was more than a bit boggy across the waste; you'll get home dry-shod if we go the other way."
From Project Gutenberg
The place was so small that it no more than held the three who stood in it, nor all of them dry-shod.
From Project Gutenberg
Two of them, tall, brown, fierce-faced fellows, slung over their shoulders the long guns with which they were armed, stooped and lifted Sallie lightly up, carried her to the shore dry-shod.
From Project Gutenberg
He probably knew that the river was fordable at that season, but preferred to pass his men over dry-shod.
From Project Gutenberg
The way was prepared, and the enemy had only to march dry-shod to their sanguinary victories.
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
