Word Meanings - SURE-FOOTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse.

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• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• FOOTHOLD
  A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• FOOTROPE
  The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
• FOOTBATH
  A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
• FOOTBOARD
  1. A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as: The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive. The foot-rest of a coachman's box. 2. A board forming the foot of a bedstead. 3. A treadle.
• HORSE-JOCKEY
  1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
• FOOTHALT
  A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
• FOOTPACE
  1. A walking pace or step. 2. A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. Shipley.
• FOOTHOT
  Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot. Gower. Custance have they taken anon, foothot. Chaucer.
• HORSEMINT
  A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint .
• HORSEWORM
  The larva of a botfly.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• SURFOOT
  Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• FOURFOOTED
  Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• FOALFOOT
  See COLTSFOOT
• PLOWFOOT; PLOUGHFOOT
  An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.
• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• LOBEFOOT
  A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.
• COOTFOOT
  The pharalope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.
• SAWHORSE
  A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
• TWO-FOOT
  Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two- foot rule.