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ˈdew-beater
[f. dew n. + beater.]
1. One who beats or shakes off the dew in front of others in the same path; an early pioneer.
a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 57 The dew-beaters have trod the way for those that come after them. 1883Hampshire Gloss., Deaw-bitter, a dew-beater, one who has large feet, or who turns his toes out so that he brushes the dew off the grass in walking.
2. pl. The feet. slang.
1811in Lexicon Balatron. 1823Scott Peveril xxxvi, First hold out your dew-beaters till I take off the darbies.
3. (See quot.)
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dew-beaters, coarse and thick shoes which resist the dew. 1847–78in Halliwell. |