Word: boot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...forms of apparatus. This new invention which is a good deal like a sliding rowing seat in appearance, is intended to impel boats, carriages and bicycles by means of arm and leg power. The operator sits on a sliding seat, puts his feet in a sliding boot rest, and grasps a lever in each hand. With a simultaneous use of both legs and body he can send the machine ahead at a great rate of speed, with little expenditure of force. The machine can be used by local muscles or by all at once, and is thus a better developer...
...much like the Greenland Eskimos in appearance and physique. Both men and women wear the ordinary hooded frocks that one sees in pictures of them. The men wear knee breeches and high kneebooks both made of reindeer skin. The women wear long trousers of the same material terminating in boot feet, this garment being all in one piece...