SNOWSHOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snowshoe mean? 

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

1. a device to help you walk on deep snow; a lightweight frame shaped like a racquet is strengthened with cross pieces and contains a network of thongs; one is worn on each foot

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

• SNOWSHOE (verb)
  The verb SNOWSHOE has 1 sense:

1. travel on snowshoes

  Familiarity information: SNOWSHOE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNOWSHOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A device to help you walk on deep snow; a lightweight frame shaped like a racquet is strengthened with cross pieces and contains a network of thongs; one is worn on each foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

• SNOWSHOE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they snowshoe    ... he / she / it snowshoes   
Past simple: snowshoed   
Past participle: snowshoed   
-ing form: snowshoeing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel on snowshoes

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

After a heavy snowfall, we have to snowshoe to the grocery store

Hypernyms (to "snowshoe" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

In advance of the dogs, on wide snowshoes, toiled a man.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For snowshoe hares and 20 other species across the northern hemisphere, the white winter coats that once rendered them nearly invisible to predators now make them conspicuous to lynx, foxes, weasels and hawks.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

In Alaska's far north, it's become the race of the white spruce tree and the snowshoe hare.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

They had made short work of the snowshoe rabbit, these dogs that were ill-tamed wolves; and they were now drawn up in an expectant circle.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The men made snowshoes, hunted fresh meat for the larder, and in the long evenings played endless games of whist and pedro.

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

They found that fewer young spruce trees had taken root during periods when snowshoe hares were abundant.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

Biologist Scott Mills of the University of Montana, who began studying snowshoe hares in the 1990s, says finding them has become much easier as average winter snow duration has decreased over time.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

They had travelled little more than a hundred yards, when Henry, who was in front, bent down and picked up something with which his snowshoe had collided.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At the mouth of the Tahkeena, one night after supper, Dub turned up a snowshoe rabbit, blundered it, and missed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As spruce trees follow behind, they must pass through a "snowshoe hare filter."

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)