snowshoe
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 →
2) To snowshoe means to walk on snow wearing snowshoes. tree →
3) A snowshoe hare is a hare with big furry feet that turns white in winter. tree →
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 →
- Snowshoes stop you sinking into deep snow. tree →
- Indigenous peoples of North America invented many kinds of snowshoe. tree →
- We went snowshoeing in the mountains in Canada. tree →
- The snowshoe hare turns white in winter. tree →
- Bigger snowshoes spread your weight over more snow. tree →
- 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 →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.