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Definition of Shoepack
1. shoepac [n -S] - See also: shoepac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoepack
Literary usage of Shoepack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1918)
"There is one for speaking now," said shoepack. " In a few days I go North,"
Rainbow Pete went muttering. " There is gold at Dungeon Creek. ..."
2. The way of the woods: A Manual for Sportsmen in Northeastern United States by Edward Breck (1908)
"When sparingly provided with small, round-headed Hungarian nails, even a steep,
wet, moss-covered rock has no terrors for the shoepack, and it is excellent ..."
3. The Way of the Woods: A Manual for Sportsmen in Northeastern United States by Edward Breck (1908)
"When sparingly provided with small, round-headed Hungarian nails, even a steep,
wet, moss-covered rock has no terrors for the shoepack, and it is excellent ..."
4. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"The Century Dictionary defines shoepack as a shoe made of leather without a separate
... shoepack, then, is an accommodated spelling of the abbreviation ..."
5. A Dictionary of American Authors by Oscar Fay Adams (1904)
"shoepack Recollections ; Faca, an Army Memoir. Willett, Joseph Edgerton.
Ga., 1826-1897. A professor of natural science in Mercer University, ..."
6. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"... shoepack Recollections"(1856) and "Faca: An Army Memoir" (1857). TAYLOR,
Alfred, naval officer, was born in Fairfax county. Va., May 23, 1810. ..."
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