All 21 Uses of
moccasin
in
When the Legends Die
- Spare moccasins for herself and the boy.†
Chpt 1moccasins = soft leather shoes traditionally worn by Native Americans
- She had made the moccasins, and the coat.†
Chpt 1
- She made winter moccasins and winter leggings and shirts, and when she had done these things she wove baskets.†
Chpt 6 *
- He wore a breechclout and moccasins in the summer and in the winter he wore the winter leggings and the winter shirt.†
Chpt 9
- He was just a youngster, ten or eleven years old, and he was dressed in the old way, moccasins, leggings, clout, no shirt, and braids.†
Chpt 11
- The boy took off his moccasins and his clout and bathed himself in the pool, and when he asked why Blue Elk did not bathe, Blue Elk said, "I am an old man."†
Chpt 12
- Thomas put one on his foot, then threw them both aside and put on his moccasins again.†
Chpt 14
- The next night he took off his shirt and pants, put on his clout, his leggings and his moccasins, took a blanket: from his cot, and climbed out the window.†
Chpt 17
- He started up the path his own moccasins had helped to make.†
Chpt 17
- The next morning he put on his shoes instead of his moccasins.†
Chpt 18
- When he had finished the lodge he took another deer, cured more meat for the winter; and he made rawhide from a part of that skin, for moccasin soles and snowshoe webbing, made leather from the rest of it for winter moccasins and leggings.†
Chpt 49
- He cut the leather for winter moccasins and shaped their rawhide soles.†
Chpt 49
- She went outside and saw the plume of fine snow that is like a cloud over a big slide, and she knew that the night's freeze had loosened the ice on the high ledges and the morning's sun had started a trickle somewhere, a trickle that was like wet mud under a moccasin.†
Chpt 6
- His eyes were not as good as they had been twenty years before, but they still knew a boy's moccasin track and a cub bear's paw print when he saw them, half a mile from the road, in the creekbank mud.†
Chpt 11
- Blue Elk found the path, found the boy's moccasin prints.†
Chpt 12
- When he had finished the lodge he took another deer, cured more meat for the winter; and he made rawhide from a part of that skin, for moccasin soles and snowshoe webbing, made leather from the rest of it for winter moccasins and leggings.†
Chpt 49
- And one afternoon, sitting in the sun, sewing the sole on a moccasin, he thought again of the bear.†
Chpt 49
- He shifted the moccasin between his knees and awled more thread holes in the tough sole, then went on sewing.†
Chpt 49
- He finished the moccasin and examined it, was satisfied with his workmanship.†
Chpt 49
- The moccasin, like that lodge, was a part of the acceptance.†
Chpt 49
- He went into the lodge, put the moccasin carefully away with its mate, put the awl in its case and laid away the coil of sinew.†
Chpt 49
Definitions:
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(1)
(moccasin) a soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, moccasin appears in water moccasin -- a type of poisonous snake.