Noun: handshoe
| Singular | handshoe |
| Plural | handshoes |
Sample Sentences
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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; [...] [1801, John Locke, Works - Volume 9 - Page 9:]
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In this country the skins of deer, hogs, and sheep are often made into "handshoes," as FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [1891, H. Warren Clifford, Every-day occupations - Page 121:]
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A glove with them is a "handshoe," showing they wore shoes before gloves. [1894, Great Thoughts from Master Minds, volume 3, page 47:]
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There was a guy propelling himself with padded “handshoes” bound to his wrists with leather straps. [2005, Harvey Mackay, Fired Up!:]
Nouns inflected like handshoe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compound of hand + shoe, likely as a calque of Dutch handschoen (“glove, mitten”) or German Handschuh (“glove”). See: Dutch Nouns '
handschoen', German Nouns '
Handschuh'.