handshoe
handshoe noun: a glove or mitten.
Noun
handshoe (plural handshoes)
- A glove or mitten.
- I doubt not, but if a man from his cradle had been always used to go bare-foot, whilst his hands were constantly wrapped up in warm mittins, and covered with handshoes, as the dutch call gloves; [...]1801, John Locke, Works - Volume 9 - Page 9
- In this country the skins of deer, hogs, and sheep are often made into "handshoes," as FROM FOREIGN LANDS.1891, H. Warren Clifford, Every-day occupations - Page 121
Proper noun capitalized: Handshoe
Handshoe (countable and uncountable, plural Handshoes)
- A surname from German.
- An unincorporated community in Knott County, Kentucky, United States.
Examples of handshoe in a sentence
- A glove with them is a "handshoe," showing they wore shoes before gloves.1894, Great Thoughts from Master Minds, volume 3, page 47:
- There was a guy propelling himself with padded “handshoes” bound to his wrists with leather straps.2005, Harvey Mackay, Fired Up!:
Forms of handshoe
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | handshoes |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Handshoes |
Origin of handshoe
Compound of hand + shoe, likely as a calque of Dutch handschoen (“glove, mitten”) or German Handschuh (“glove”).
See handshoe.
Questions about handshoe
- What does handshoe mean?
- Handshoe means a glove or mitten.
- How do you use handshoe in a sentence?
- A glove with them is a "handshoe," showing they wore shoes before gloves.
- What part of speech is handshoe?
- Handshoe can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of handshoe?
- The plural of handshoe is handshoes.
Words near handshoe in the dictionary
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