foot

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foot
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Meanings
noun
  • the lower extremity of the leg below the ankle, on which a person stands or walks.
  • a projecting part on which a piece of furniture or each of its legs stands.
  • the lower or lowest part of something; the base or bottom.
    E.g. the foot of the stairs
  • a unit of linear measure equal to 12 inches (30.48 cm).
    E.g. shallow water no more than a foot deep
  • 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
  • cover a distance, especially a long one, on foot.
    E.g. the rider was left to foot it ten or twelve miles back to camp

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