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snow shoe

snow shoe is the alternative form of snowshoe.

Meaning of snowshoe

Noun

snowshoe (plural snowshoes)

  1. A flat item of footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow.
  2. Synonym of mukluk
    Synonyms:
    mukluk

See all 4 meanings of snowshoe

Proper noun capitalized: Snow Shoe

Snow Shoe

  1. A township and minor borough therein, in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Forms of snow shoe

pluralsnow shoes

Origin of snow shoe

According to local tradition, Snow Shoe was so named when a pair of snowshoes were found at an Indian village near the present town site.

Questions about snow shoe

What does snow shoe mean?
Snow shoe means a township and minor borough therein, in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.
What is snow shoe the alternative form of?
Snow shoe is the alternative form of snowshoe.
What part of speech is snow shoe?
Snow shoe is a proper noun.

Words near snow shoe in the dictionary

  1. snow scooter
  2. snow scooters
  3. snow shed
  4. snow sheds
  5. snow sheep
  6. snow shoe
  7. snow shoes
  8. snow shovel
  9. snow shovels
  10. snow shower
  11. snow showers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snow shoe (page history and authors); Snow Shoe (page history and authors); snowshoe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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