trail shoe North DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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See also: trail-breaker (def. 2) tripping (snow)shoe
- 1924  The trail shoes are small, to break down the soft snow for the dogs to follow and run on the broken trail.
- 1955  Her snow-shoes were the short, narrow birch webs called "trail shoes" and were not built for deep snow.
- 1966  Reed and the Indian moved swiftly over the trodden, blood-stained snow on their light trail shoes. . . .