Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who walks on snow-shoes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
traverses snow wearing snowshoes.
Etymologies
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Examples
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SEATTLE — A 66-year-old snowshoer who had been missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday was found alive Monday by a team of three rescuers, a national park spokeswoman said.
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SEATTLE — A 66-year-old snowshoer who had been missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday was found alive Monday by a team of three rescuers, a national park spokeswoman said.
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The materials -- wood and rawhide -- stayed the same, as did the original snowshoe concept: webbed racquets long and broad enough to spread body weight and keep a snowshoer on top of the snow.
Chill of Victory, Agony of the Feet: The Art of Snowshoe Racing 2009
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Ask a springtime skier or snowshoer about these things.
This Just In: It's Snobbatical Time! BikeSnobNYC 2008
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To avoid the powder, I walked a frozen snowmobile track for a while, then the packed prints of a lone snowshoer.
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A search for a missing snowshoer presumed trapped in a Utah avalanche is put on hold due to bad weather.
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And in Utah, the search for a snowshoer lost in an avalanche has been postponed.
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Another snowshoer rode out avalanche yesterday and called for help.
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The search for a Utah snowshoer lost in an avalanche has been postponed.
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Another snowshoer rode out the avalanche yesterday and called for help.
qroqqa commented on the word snowshoer
Some showshoers use tunneled connections from their back-end spam cannon to the spam egress IP.
—Spamhaus glossary s.v. snowshoe spamming
December 1, 2015