Meanings
nountrench boot (plural trench boots)
plural trench boots
- A boot designed to stand up to the wet, muddy conditions of trench warfare.
Besides, whilst he had been in hospital, practically the whole of his equipment had disappeared from his kitbag – including Sylvia's two pair of sheets! – and he had no money with which to get more. He had not even any trench-boots.
1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 371
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