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Word Meanings - WEB-FOOTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web- footed fowl.

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  • GOOSEFOOT
    A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
  • GOOSERY
    1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • FOOTMARK
    A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
  • FOOTPLATE
    See
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • FOOTBRIDGE
    A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
  • FOOTHOLD
    A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
  • 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.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • FOOTHOT
    Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot. Gower. Custance have they taken anon, foothot. Chaucer.
  • PALMIPED
    Web-footed, as a water fowl. -- n.
  • GOOSEWINGED
    Having a "goosewing." Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
  • 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.
  • FOURFOOTED
    Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
  • WAY-GOOSE
    See 2
  • 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.
  • TWO-FOOT
    Measuring two feet; two feet long, thick, or wide; as, a two- foot rule.
  • SPLAYFOOT
    A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

 

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