Definition of "snowshoe" []

• A racket-shaped frame containing interlaced strips, as of leather, that can be attached to the foot to facilitate walking on deep snow. (noun)
• To travel on snowshoes. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "There was this awful summer slump in snowshoe sales, so Harold developed the world's only moose-gut tennis racket."
• "The rabbit, or more properly the varying-hare, of the northern forest is also called the snowshoe rabbit, from the fact that nature has provided it with remarkable feet that allow it to run with ease over the deepest and softest snow."
• "Winter travellers, however, were sometimes troubled with a disorder known as the snowshoe evil."