Meaning of Sandshoe | Babel Free

Definitions

A sports or walking shoe with canvas upper and rubber sole; a sneaker.

Australia, New-Zealand, Northern-England, Scotland

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Examples

“He was clad in a shabby khaki-drill suit⟳ and grubby panama and sandshoes, and wore neither socks nor shirt, and was unshaven.”

“1986, Pete Thomas, The Coalminers of Queensland, Volume I: Creating the Traditions, Queensland Colliery Employees Union, page 325, Later, however, the union ran into a problem of a severe shortage of sandshoes in Queensland. The rationing authorities, in reply⟳ to a union request⟳ on this, said that the Chief Inspector of Coalmines had condemned use⟳ of sandshoes in mines as being “not conducive to health or safety.””

“2003, Peter Plowman, Across the Sea to War: Australian and New Zealand Troop Convoys from 1865 through two World Wars to Lorea and Vietnam, Rosenberg Publishing, Australia, page 387, Sandshoes had been issued for shipboard use⟳, to avoid⟳ damage⟳ to the decks by hob-nailed boots.”

“2007, Melissa Harper, The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia, UNSW Press⟳, page 272, The sandshoe versus the boot; this is an issue⟳ that has stirred the blood of bushwalkers for more than fifty years. […] The demise of the ubiquitous hob-nailed boot (circa 1950s) in favour of a boot with a patterned rubber sole generated concern⟳, but the popularity of a boot that combined a rubber sole and a canvas upper with no ankle support⟳ simply went too far for some.”

“But because yer sandshoes, if they were dirty, it was a point⟳ off yer team, so ye were just to try⟳ yer hardest.”

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