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   foot

   /fʊt/

   noun

   • 1. the lower extremity of the leg below the ankle, on which a person stands or walks. Similar informal:tootsietrotterrhyming slang:plates of meatinformal:dogs
   • ▪ a corresponding part of the leg in vertebrate animals. Similar pawforepawhind pawhooftrotterpadtechnical:tarsusungularare:slotdewclaw
   • ▪ a locomotory or adhesive organ of an invertebrate.
   • ▪ the part of a sock, stocking, etc. that covers the foot.
   • ▪ a person's body below the torso, including the entire leg and the foot. West Indian
   • ▪ a person's manner or speed of walking or running: literary "fleet of foot"
   • ▪ infantry; foot soldiers: historical, formal British "a captain of foot"
   • 2. a projecting part on which a piece of furniture or each of its legs stands.
   • ▪ a device on a sewing machine for holding the material steady as it is sewn.
   • ▪ the part by which a petal is attached.
   • 3. the lower or lowest part of something; the base or bottom: "the foot of the stairs" Similar bottombasetoeedgeendlowest partlowest pointlower limitsfoundation
   • ▪ the end of a table that is furthest from where the host sits.
   • ▪ the end of a bed, couch, or grave where the occupant's feet normally rest.
   • ▪ the lower edge of a sail.
   • 4. a unit of linear measure equal to 12 inches (30.48 cm): "shallow water no more than a foot deep"
   • ▪ a unit used in describing a set of organ pipes according to its pitch, the designation being the length of one particular pipe: "an 8-foot reed stop"
   • ▪ a unit used in describing a set of harpsichord strings playing at the same pitch as a set of organ pipes of the same designation: "the 16-foot register"
   • 5. a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit. In English poetry it consists of stressed and unstressed syllables, while in ancient classical poetry it consists of long and short syllables.

   verb

   • 1. cover a distance, especially a long one, on foot: informal "the rider was left to foot it ten or twelve miles back to camp"
   • ▪ dance: informal "the dance of fairies, footing it to the cricket's song"

   Word Origin Old Englishfōt, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch voet and German Fuss, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit pad, pāda, Greek pous, pod-, and Latin pes, ped- ‘foot’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. footless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 7

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