Dry-foot
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 With dry feet; without getting the feet wet. not-comparable
"Where he speaketh of his passage over the River of Rheine, towards Germanie, he saith, that deeming it unworthy the honour of the Romane people, his army should passe over in shippes, he caused a bridge to be built, that so it might passe over drie-foot."
- 2 By only the scent of the feet (of hunting, tracking etc.). not-comparable, obsolete
"A hound that runs Counter, and yet draws drifoot well, / One that before the Iudgme[n]t carries poore soules to hel."
Example
More examples"Where he speaketh of his passage over the River of Rheine, towards Germanie, he saith, that deeming it unworthy the honour of the Romane people, his army should passe over in shippes, he caused a bridge to be built, that so it might passe over drie-foot."
Etymology
From dry + foot.
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