A kind of "puttee" legging, consisting of a long wrapping of white canvas. From Wordnik.com. [A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas] Reference
Zaidos stooped and tightened the strap of his puttee. From Wordnik.com. [Shelled by an Unseen Foe] Reference
He slid the pencil down into his puttee and stood up, bowing. From Wordnik.com. [Shelled by an Unseen Foe] Reference
January 17, 2008 at 9:00 am silleee puttee iz a stiky subjekt fur me. From Wordnik.com. [Go Go Gadget Arms!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
"You takee my tanglefoot and allee samee puttee in your pockee; me wantee.". From Wordnik.com. [Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll] Reference
I wonst gotted in beeg twubbel for frowing sillee puttee or wuz is plai dough? at the seeling. From Wordnik.com. [Go Go Gadget Arms!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
A soldier lay on his back with his rifle beside him, his left foot merely held on by his puttee. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
Then there was great hustling to get out in line and many a woolen puttee was missing that morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
He said never a word, but in a trice had his knife out, cut off his puttee and looked at his ankle. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
As the West Point trainer said one day: "I've got him all bandaged up like a leg in a puttee, but from the neck up he's a piece of ice.". From Wordnik.com. [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference
At last he broke away, the torn puttee dragging behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
Raffles smiled as he secured a regular puttee of dust-sheeting. From Wordnik.com. [A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures] Reference
Austin finished buckling his puttee before rising to his full height. From Wordnik.com. [Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories] Reference
Steam rose from puttee and heavy shoe and from sodden woollen breeches. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaming Jewel] Reference
He walked ahead as fast as he could, his puttee still dragging behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
Steam rose from puttee and heavy shoe and from the sodden woollen breeches. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaming Jewel] Reference
Tuesday afternoon found themselves with two tunics and no trousers, or two hats and only one puttee. From Wordnik.com. [The Loom of Youth] Reference
Who else in that little one-horse town would be sportin 'a pair of puttee leggin's and doeskin ridin' breeches?. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe] Reference
FitzMorris turned up at the next parade with one puttee missing, and a tunic that could not meet across his chest. From Wordnik.com. [The Loom of Youth] Reference
From beneath the overturned tonneau projected the lower part of a man's leg, clad in a brown puttee and a russet shoe. From Wordnik.com. [The Guest of Quesnay] Reference
Mary V hurried the last puttee buckle, picked up her bridle and a battered feed pan, and went quietly across the corral. From Wordnik.com. [Skyrider] Reference
He advanced to her down the great length of room, lowering his head over her hand, his puttee-clad legs clicking together. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
He was quite small and his arms were by his side, his puttee-wrapped legs and muddy boots together, his cap over his face. From Wordnik.com. [A Farewell To Arms]
I unwound the puttee and while I was doing it I saw there was no need to try and make a tourniquet because he was dead already. From Wordnik.com. [A Farewell To Arms]
English khaki -- supplied from the store-cupboard -- and that every morning they had to practise the art of putting on a puttee?. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the War] Reference
Chrisfield caught his puttee on a clump of briars at the edge of the clearing and stood kicking his leg back and forth to get it free. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
Bracy bowed his head, and the young soldier ran his hand down the puttee bandage about his officer's leg, and drew in his breath sharply. From Wordnik.com. [Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills] Reference
"Me puttee in um pack, so be.". From Wordnik.com. [Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll] Reference
Your puttee catches on a strand of wire. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of a Red Cross Man] Reference
(Your puttee strap's undone -- that worries you). From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of a Red Cross Man] Reference
ESPSHULEE mighty puttee!. From Wordnik.com. [Camouflage - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
That cursed puttee!. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of a Red Cross Man] Reference
T'ink I'm gwyin to fite puttee lilly baby?. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)] Reference
Tyke 'is puttee off, one of you! ". From Wordnik.com. [Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army] Reference
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