seaboot

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noun

A waterproof boot for use on ships in bad weather.

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Meanings

nounseaboot (plural seaboots)

plural seaboots · alternative sea-boot

  1. A waterproof boot for use on ships in bad weather.

    "[…] You saw the body. He didn't even have time to kick off his seaboots."

    1956, William Golding, chapter 14, in Pincher Martin, Faber & Faber, published 2012
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    There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher.

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

    Doubtless he had a middle because there was a shrivelled little voice pickled away somewhere in his vitals, but his sou'wester came so low and his sea-boots so high, the rest of him seemed negligible.

    1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck

Origin

From sea + boot.

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APA

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“seaboot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seaboot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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