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dry-shod

dry-shod adverb: with one's footwear dry, not in or under water, usually referring to walking on ground which at another time, or usually, is covered with deep water.

Adverb

dry-shod (not comparable)

  1. With one's footwear dry, not in or under water, usually referring to walking on ground which at another time, or usually, is covered with deep water.
    • For much of the Ice Age, men walked dryshod on the bed of the North Sea many fathoms below where ships now sail.
    • And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 11:15

Forms of dry-shod

alternative formdryshod

Questions about dry-shod

What does dry-shod mean?
Dry-shod means with one's footwear dry, not in or under water, usually referring to walking on ground which at another time, or usually, is covered with deep water.
What part of speech is dry-shod?
Dry-shod is an adverb.

Words near dry-shod in the dictionary

  1. dry-runs
  2. dry-salt
  3. dry-salted
  4. dry-salting
  5. dry-salts
  6. dry-shod
  7. dry-stone
  8. dry-stone dyke
  9. dry-stone dykes
  10. dry-tool
  11. dry-weather tire

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