dry-shod

1. 1.

   having or keeping the feet or shoes dry

   “a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod”

   Similardry

Questions about dry-shod

What does dry-shod mean?

dry-shod means "having or keeping the feet or shoes dry".

How many syllables are in dry-shod?

dry-shod has 2 syllables and divides as dry--shod under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is dry-shod a common word?

dry-shod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.