shoepak

plural shoepaks

1. A heavy leather, ankle-high shoe, similar to a moccasin in that it lacks a separate sole.

   Most of them were barefoot; a few had canvas footwear. A couple of the older ones wore shoepaks or heavy boots.

   1963, Agnes Sylvia Rodli, North of Heaven: A Teaching Ministry Among the Alaskan Indians

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   Footwear had always been a problem in the kayak. Shoepaks kept my feet warm and dry, but were stiff and heavy to wear in the little boat. Regular mukluks were light and flexible, but didn't work too well when they were wet.

   1989, Will Nordby, Seekers of the horizon: sea kayaking voyages from around the world, →ISBN

   She wore shoepaks to church and they tell of the time she asked the butcher to cut the cheese with the ham knife: "I dearly love the flavor of ham," she said.

   1990, Cully Gage, The Northwoods Reader, →ISBN, page 20

2. A heavy lined workboot worn by loggers and used in the military.

   We had a rough time at Bastogne. No parkas, no shoepaks, no ammo, no nothing.

   2014, David Webster, Parachute Infantry: The book that inspired Band of Brothers, →ISBN

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   Garment factories did their job too, and soon we would fare as well as combat troops and be furnished wool jackets, shoepaks, overshoes, service boots, panchos and wool gloves.

   1972, Meredith L. Butterton, Metric 16, page 283

   In the words of the US Marine historian: 'In shoepaks, perspiration-soaked feet became transformed into lumps of biting pain.'

   2001, Michael Hickey, The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism, →ISBN