n. Short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun-plural. High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
A protection for the shoes, hose, etc., from mud and rain, worn especially by horsemen in the seventeenth century.
Word Usage
"By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man."