DCHP-1 Online
mal de raquette [< Cdn F] 
a painful state of inflamed joints and muscles affecting snowshoers, caused by undue strain on the tendons of the leg.
See also: snowshoe evil snowshoe fever snowshoe lameness snowshoe sickness
- 1821 (1900) (Mal de Raquet a Pain in the Nerves of the Leg from the Pressure of the Snow Shoe. The Indians cure this by putting a live Coal on the Part affected and burn it to the Bone.)
- 1859 (1925) The morning I found I had what the voyageurs call mal de racquet.
- 1955 (1959) These induced such a bad attack of mal de racquette that I could hardly walk the next day.
- 1821 (1900) (Mal de Raquet a Pain in the Nerves of the Leg from the Pressure of the Snow Shoe. The Indians cure this by putting a live Coal on the Part affected and burn it to the Bone.)