plimsoll
See also: Plimsoll
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From Samuel Plimsoll, a Bristol merchant.
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plimsoll (plural plimsolls)
- (British) A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.
- 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled![1]:
- “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.
- 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 8:
- While here, now, a large boy, a famous bully, swaggered to the front to bend, leering, and offer his satirical backside to be ineffectually beaten with a plimsoll by the gentle Scot.
- The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or
o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.
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early sports shoes
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