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spiked boot Lumbering

• 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  

  • 1903  . . . a riverman and spiked boots and a saw-log can do more work than an ordinary man with a rowboat.
  • 1945  . . . men walking over the loose timber, in their spiked boots, sorted out with their long pike-poles . . . the longer, thinner pieces. . . .