Crossword-Solution: BROGANS 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

McTeague wore a black surah neglige shirt without a cravat; huge buckled brogans, hob-nailed, gross, encased his feet; the hems of his trousers were spotted with mud; his coat was frayed at the sleeves and a button was gone.

But by the brogans of Brian Boru--if we could have had some of that stuff to turn on during the war--oh, boy!" He was silent, evidently contemplating the idea with vast pleasure.

They were Chinese, with expressionless, Sphinx-like faces, and they walked in peculiar shambling fashion, dragging their feet as if the clumsy brogans were too heavy for their lean shanks.

The remainder of my costume was fairly easy to put on, though the brogans, or brogues, were quite a problem.

And "Galilee" I understood as a mispronunciation of "gallery." "Going up into Galilee" I interpreted into clattering up the uncarpeted stairs in the meeting-house porch, as the boys did, with their squeaking brogans, looking as restless as imprisoned monkeys after they had got into those conspicuous seats, where they behaved as if they thought nobody could see their pranks.