spatterdashes
spatterdashes noun: coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.
Noun
spatterdashes pl (normally plural, singular spatterdash)
- Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.
- [W]’i my firelock, and my bagnet, and my spatterdashes […] I was a pretty sight in my soldiering days.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 165
- Over the winter-solid Roads, goes a great seething,— of mounted younger Gentlemen riding together by the dozens upon rented horses, Express Messengers in love with pure Velocity, Disgruntl'd Suitors with Pistols stuff'd in their Spatterdashes, seal'd Waggons not even a western Black-Boy would think...1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 39, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 395
spatterdashes meaning in Tamil
spatterdashes in Tamil
- மேற்காப்புக் காலுறைக் குப்பாயம்
Forms of spatterdashes
| singular | spatterdash |
|---|---|
| alternative form | spatterdashers |
Words formed from spatterdashes
Questions about spatterdashes
- What does spatterdashes mean?
- Spatterdashes means coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.
- What is spatterdashes in Tamil?
- Spatterdashes in Tamil is மேற்காப்புக் காலுறைக் குப்பாயம். See Spatterdashes meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is spatterdashes?
- Spatterdashes is a noun.
Words near spatterdashes in the dictionary
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