toe-rag — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A cloth worn wrapped around the foot instead of a sock; a footwrap.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Examples

   Stockings being unknown, some luxurious men wrapped round their feet a piece of old shirting, called, in language more expressive than elegant, a “toe-rag”.

   One of his feet had been bleeding, I could see from his ‘toe-rag,’ which stuck out on one side.

   More examples (1)

   Steady old Väinämöinen / yonder crept with no shoes on / without toe-rags he tiptoed […].