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handshoe

noun

Etymology

Compound of hand + shoe, likely as a calque of Dutch handschoen (“glove, mitten”) or German Handschuh (“glove”).

  1. derived from Handschuh — “glove”

Definitions

  1. A glove or mitten.

    • I doubt not, but if a man from his cradle had been always used to go bare-foot, whilst his hands were constantly wrapped up in warm mittins, and covered with handshoes, as the dutch call gloves; [...]
    • In this country the skins of deer, hogs, and sheep are often made into "handshoes," as FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
    • A glove with them is a "handshoe," showing they wore shoes before gloves.

  2. A surname from German.

  3. An unincorporated community in Knott County, Kentucky, United States.

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