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muckluck|ˈmʌklʌk|
Also maclock, mucluc, muklek, mukluk.
[Eskimo.]
A high boot made of sealskin, canvas, etc. Also attrib.
1868F. Whymper Trav. Alaska 136 Their boots vary in length, and in the material used for the sides, but all have soles of ‘maclock’, or sealskin, with the hair removed. 1901Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 56 We stop on our way..and buy a pair of mucklucks or Esquimaux seal boots. They are water-tight, clumsy, evil-smelling, [etc.]. 1904E. Robins Magnetic North i. 51 Nothing like muck-lucks with a wisp of straw inside for this country. Ibid. 176 Stretching out his feet, very comfortable in their straw-lined mucklucks. 1913R. W. Service Rhymes of Rolling Stone 118 Then it's down to chewing muclucs, to the water you can eat, To fish you bolt with nose held in your hand. 1924Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 41/1 He was habited..in anorak and skin breeches and mukluks. 1947Chicago Tribune 11 Dec. 20/3 He was presented with..a pair of mukluk boots made to order for Paul Bunyan. 1962W. Noyce To Unknown Mountain v. 54 Unable to fit his vast feet into any boots but a pair of canvas mucklucks. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 8 Dec. 10/4 His legs were now swathed almost to the knee in the white sealskin mukluks that are standard issue in the [Canadian National Parks] Service. 1973Observer 29 Apr. 34/8 His mukleks—the Eskimo moccasins with the hard, sealskin soles. |