snowshoe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a broad, lightweight frame or platform attached to the foot to distribute weight when walking over deep snow

   She tightened each snowshoe before crossing the powdery field.

2. 2
   verb

   to travel or walk using snowshoes

   We snowshoe across the frozen meadow after every heavy storm.

A transparent compound of snow + shoe, recorded for footwear designed to spread a person's weight over soft snow. The word is also used attributively in snowshoe hare or snowshoe rabbit, named for the animal's large, furred hind feet.

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