Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having dry shoes or feet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without wetting the feet; having or keeping the feet or shoes dry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb without wetting's one's shoes or feet.
- adjective without wetting's one's shoes or feet.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or keeping the feet or shoes dry
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Examples
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Men left their homes dry-shod in the morning, and returning from business had to wade up to their knees through unlighted streets or creep perilously along a narrow plank gangway, only to find that it stopped short just where the water was deepest.
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Thirty seconds after Brazil went into rapture in the rain, Hamilton sneaked past a dry-shod Timo Glock at the final corner to claim fifth place and the title by a point.
Classic F1 season finishes: six decades of final grand prix drama Oliver Owen 2010
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An old fellow pointed out that one of the prophesies was that when it became possible to cross the river dry-shod in five places, disaster would strike the world.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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But the sheer quantity made him pause and wonder if those stories about fish being so thick in the river that you could walk dry-shod on their backs might have a solid kernel of truth to them.
Elephant in the City 2010
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Only two ships struggle ashore on the south coast, and they learn at once that Buckingham has been defeated by the rising of the river, his rebellion washed away by the waters, and Richard is waiting, dry-shod, to execute the survivors.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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She sits dry-shod on the steps, shakes the water from the sheets of paper and tries to consider the view in the first person.
Archive 2009-07-01 David McDuff 2009
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From henceforth in the halls of Nereus shalt thou dwell with me, god and goddess together; thence shalt thou rise dry-shod from out the main and see Achilles, our dear son, settled in his island-home by the strand of Leuce, that is girdled by the Euxine sea.
Andromache 2007
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This is the night when first you saved our fathers :you freed the people of Israel from their slaveryand led them dry-shod through the sea.
Archive 2007-04-01 Dymphna 2007
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This is the night when first you saved our fathers :you freed the people of Israel from their slaveryand led them dry-shod through the sea.
Exultet from Easter Vigil Dymphna 2007
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From henceforth in the halls of Nereus shalt thou dwell with me, god and goddess together; thence shalt thou rise dry-shod from out the main and see Achilles, our dear son, settled in his island-home by the strand of Leuce, that is girdled by the Euxine sea.
Andromache 2007
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