toe-straps

Updated: June 2, 2025

I began it the first winter I spent in Saint's Rest, when the snow-shoeing was at its best. Really to appreciate the scenery, you should take three hours for the approach from the basin down yonder, dragging a pair of Canadian raquettes by the toe-straps." The young woman laughed inwardly at the broadsword slash of his sarcasm.

Francis Lynde - Empire Builders

The old snow-shoes had only toe-straps and no other strings, and the feat of walking securely upon seemed almost as difficult to the young Englishman as walking on the sea of frozen atoms without them; but still, the fact that the visitor wore them made him seem more companionable.

L. (Lily) Dougall - What Necessity Knows