snowshoe
IPA: snˈoʊʃu
noun
- A flat item of footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow.
- A domestic cat of a particular breed with a light body and darker ears, face, legs, and tail.
verb
- (intransitive) To travel using snowshoes.
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Examples of "snowshoe" in Sentences
- It's like putting on a snowshoe.
- Sushi is a snowshoe siamese cat.
- Snowshoe hares are active year round.
- Snowshoe hares are crepuscular to nocturnal.
- They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe.
- A Snowshoe is footwear for walking over the snow.
- No word for snowshoe in Swedish dictionary either.
- It regards itself as the snowshoe capital of the world.
- The community asserts that it is the Snowshoe capital of the world.
- Snow is common in the winter and may necessitate the use of snowshoes.
- Winter travellers, however, were sometimes troubled with a disorder known as the snowshoe evil.
- There was this awful summer slump in snowshoe sales, so Harold developed the world's only moose-gut tennis racket.
- In times when alternative foods such as snowshoe hares and ptarmigan were also in low numbers, there was suffering and death among the people.
- The boots provided an unexpected benefit: they acted as a kind of snowshoe when there was deep snow, and the large, heavy animals didn't sink in as far.
- Our critter of the month is the closest thing to an Easter Bunny we have, at least in the Adirondacks; it is the varying hare, more commonly known as the snowshoe rabbit.
- There are two rabbits, one a huge jackrabbit of the great plains region, the other the "snowshoe" rabbit, so called because of his broad furry feet which keep it from sinking into the soft snow in winter.
- The rabbit, or more properly the varying-hare, of the northern forest is also called the snowshoe rabbit, from the fact that nature has provided it with remarkable feet that allow it to run with ease over the deepest and softest snow.
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