DCHP-1 Online

beef boot Hist.

• a boot or shoe of ox or buffalo hide, used by voyageurs, canoemen, settlers, etc., usually of local manufacture.

  See also: beef shoe  shoepack (def. 2)  voyageur  

  • a1880  (1962)  [We wore] beef boots . . . patched on the legs with sundry pieces of leather. . . .
  • 1930  The pillar of agriculture . . . thudded into the house in his big beef boots, solid symbols of progress themselves. . . .