DCHP-2
beef boot Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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. . . .
- a1880 (1962) [We wore] beef boots . . . patched on the legs with sundry pieces of leather. . . .