dew-beater

English

Noun

dew-beater (plural dew-beaters) (obsolete, slang, chiefly in the plural)

  1. A person's foot.
  2. A crude kind of oiled waterproof shoe.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
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