Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strip of cloth wound spirally around the leg from ankle to knee.
- noun A gaiter covering the lower leg.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strip of woolen or other fabric, sometimes waterproofed, four inches wide and three yards long, with a tape at one end, designed to be wound spirally around the leg, from the ankle nearly to the knee. It forms an efficient protection to sportsmen and soldiers. See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A kind of gaiter of waterproof cloth wrapped around the leg, used by soldiers, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
strip ofcloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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a kind of "puttee" legging, consisting of a long wrapping of white canvas.
A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Harry Collingwood 1886
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January 17, 2008 at 9:00 am silleee puttee iz a stiky subjekt fur me.
Go Go Gadget Arms!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I wonst gotted in beeg twubbel for frowing sillee puttee or wuz is plai dough? at the seeling.
Go Go Gadget Arms!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The joints of the limbs I could not see, because of the puttee-like straps in which they were swathed, and which formed the only clothing the being wore.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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Nick sang out cheerfully as he made a great pretense of picking up his books and stuffing a couple of pencils in the top of his pigskin puttee.
Shelled by an Unseen Foe James Fiske
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A soldier lay on his back with his rifle beside him, his left foot merely held on by his puttee.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson
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They were clothed in the customary fashion of their tribe -- with a sort of blanket-capote garment reaching below the knee, their lower limbs swathed in strips of blanket, wound puttee-wise.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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A bullet had just grazed his leg and the Government was compelled to provide him with a new puttee.
Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson
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Zaidos stooped and tightened the strap of his puttee.
Shelled by an Unseen Foe James Fiske
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He slid the pencil down into his puttee and stood up, bowing.
Shelled by an Unseen Foe James Fiske
ruzuzu commented on the word puttee
I wonder whether one could make them of lace. (You'd have to learn to puttee tat, of course.)
January 13, 2015
bilby commented on the word puttee
I tought I taw a bad pun!
January 14, 2015