Puttee

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  • noun. A strip of cloth wound spirally around the leg from ankle to knee.
  • noun. A gaiter covering the lower leg.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A strip of woolen or other fabric, sometimes waterproofed, four inches wide and three yards long, with a tape at one end, designed to be wound spirally around the leg, from the ankle nearly to the knee. It forms an efficient protection to sportsmen and soldiers. See the extract.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • A kind of gaiter of waterproof cloth wrapped around the leg, used by soldiers, etc.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I
    • Word Usage
    "a kind of "puttee" legging, consisting of a long wrapping of white canvas."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    leg covering  legging  leging  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Time  Tripoli  birchbark  brassard  bridebed  
    variant
    puttie  putty  
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