foxed ppl a Cp OED ~ 5 Ir cite (1880). Phr foxed down: of a sealskin boot, with sole and heel strengthened with leather. See FOX BOOT.
   1981 SPARKES xiii Some schooner men preferred 'foxed down' boots to the more usual leather sea or deck boot. Foxed down boots were skin-boots to which soles and heels of leather had been fixed.

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