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gumboot

• 1 n. a rubber boot, reaching to just below the knee.

  See also: gum ((n.)) (def. 2)  

  • 1860  At the Cariboo, gum boots were selling at $25 per pair. . . .
  • 1909  The girlish figure of a teacher struggling through the awful mud in gum-boots indicates that we have not travelled beyond the range of the little red schoolhouse.
  • 1955  That big Rooshin stands with his dirty gumboots on my outhouse seat.
  • 1964  "He'll need socks, gum boots, work pants . . . hard hats, bone dry jackets. . . .

• 2 n. a long rubber boot reaching to the hips.

  See also: hip-wader  

  • Other references to gumboots during the gold-rush days may well refer to hip-waders.

  • 1873  His large feet were encased in india-rubber boots . . . (called gum-boots in the vernacular), which covered the thighs and fastened around the waist.