brodkins

Updated: June 26, 2025

By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man. By it the butt and rover-bows are strung, the crossbows bended, and the slings made fixed.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3