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• s  having or keeping the feet or shoes dry
  a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod

• Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete sea .
• But in either case, says Toynbee, she will only transform her lake into a road and let in the "landlubber dry-shod.
• Barges were coming in to Japanese jetties now, landing the troops dry-shod.