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Definition of Shoepacks
1. shoepack [n] - See also: shoepack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoepacks
Literary usage of Shoepacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Moose Book: Facts and Stories from Northern Forests by Samuel Merrill (1920)
"The lumberman's "shoepacks" are favored by many for still-hunting, ... When worn
smooth on the bottoms these boots in wet snow are as slippery as shoepacks. ..."
2. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1890)
"... remarkable progress therein, doing a considerable amount of work ; three ont
of four of these pupils are able to make each a pair of shoepacks a day. ..."
3. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1919)
"... 9 doz. at 2.25; cocoa matting, 19 5-6 yds. at 75c.; stair plaits, 2Ve doz.
at 50c. ; window shades, 1 at 1.45, 2 at 4.25; shoepacks, 392 at 6.75, ..."
4. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1918)
"... padding there with his yellow shoepacks bringing another drink. But still
there was no word of Pal ..."
5. Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860: A Study in by Rolla Milton Tryon (1917)
"From him we also learn that practically every family had its tailors and its
shoemakers and that both shoes and shoepacks were made, the latter by those who ..."
6. Pioneer Women of the West by Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1856)
"... and an assemblage of horses, without a blacksmith or saddler within an equal
distance; the gentlemen dressed in shoepacks, moccasins, leather breeches, ..."