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# snowshoe

«snowshoe» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wide flat frame you tie under your boot so you can walk…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a snowshoe, snowshoes); verb (snowshoe, snowshoes, snowshoed, snowshoeing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A snowshoe is a wide flat frame you tie under your boot so you can walk on deep snow without sinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#m1)

2) To snowshoe means to walk on snow wearing snowshoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#m2)

3) A snowshoe hare is a hare with big furry feet that turns white in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Comes up in stories and lessons about Canada, the Arctic, winter sports and First Nations inventions; in science, a snowshoe spreads your weight over a bigger area so the pressure is smaller; the snowshoe hare appears in food-chain lessons.

### examples

- We strapped on snowshoes and crossed the meadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x1)
- Snowshoes stop you sinking into deep snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x2)
- Indigenous peoples of North America invented many kinds of snowshoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x3)
- We went snowshoeing in the mountains in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x4)
- The snowshoe hare turns white in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x5)
- Bigger snowshoes spread your weight over more snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x6)
- I was just thinking what good snowshoes it would make,” answered the fox in an absent voice, as if he was not thinking of what he was saying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x7)

### note

Usually used in pairs: «a pair of snowshoes». Past form of the verb: snowshoed. Science link: same weight on a bigger area means less pressure.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «snowshoe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.