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cork(ed) boot

• a strong boot the sole of which is studded with steel spikes, or caulks, used by loggers to keep from slipping on wet or sloping logs.

  See also: caulked boot (def. 1)  

  • 1901  The Frenchman . . . bore him down and jumped with his heavy "corked" boots on his breast and face.
  • 1912  This time it was by the river "boss" and his "gang" who came with their cant-dogs and pike-poles and cork-shoes, to roll in the saw logs and float them down . . . to the markets of the world. . . .
  • 1965  George Street on a Saturday night is awash with visiting bushworkers, many of them still in hard hats or cork boots. . . .