OVERSHOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overshoe mean? 

• OVERSHOE (noun)
  The noun OVERSHOE has 1 sense:

1. footwear that protects your shoes from water or snow or cold

  Familiarity information: OVERSHOE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERSHOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Footwear that protects your shoes from water or snow or cold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("overshoe" is a kind of...):

footgear; footwear (covering for a person's feet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "overshoe"):

arctic; galosh; golosh; gumshoe; rubber (a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow)

 Context examples 

"There'll be a check at the post-office, I know, and we'll transmute it into beautiful buckwheat flour, a gallon of maple syrup, and a new pair of overshoes for you."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Nobody talked much, but as the time drew very near and they sat waiting for the carriage, Mrs. March said to the girls, who were all busied about her, one folding her shawl, another smoothing out the strings of her bonnet, a third putting on her overshoes, and a fourth fastening up her travelling bag...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on her overshoes, and when she emerged from the house found her waiting husband absorbed in the wonder of a bursting almond-bud.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)