Foot

A spider has eight feet.

Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.

And when I ſawe him, I fell at his feete as dead : and hee laid his right hand vpon me, ſaying vnto mee, Feare not, *I am the firſt,and the laſt.

We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi.

There is a lot of foot traffic on this street.

I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.

We came and stood at the foot of the bed.

The host should sit at the foot of the table.

The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.

The flag pole, which is 20 feet high, was hoisted by a six-foot tall man.

My sis's just over six foot two.

No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.

No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.

King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse.

His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.

He removes a gold lighter from his pocket, flips it open, and waves the flame over the foot, taking short, sucking pulls off the head till it’s lit.

To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail.

(b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.

To conſider the vvhole of the Subject, to read and think on all ſides, to object plainly, and anſvver directly, upon the foot of dry Reaſon and Argument, vvou'd be a very tedious and troubleſome Affair.

May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann As to his being on the foot of a servant.

There's time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride,

He saw a Quire of Ladies in a round, That featly footing seem'd to skim the Ground

thieves do foot by night

[…] Or shepherd-boy, they featly foot the green

People who would not have dared to foot the place before crept in and did not come to the house.

What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?

I'll sew nether stocks and mend them and foot them too

to foot (or foot up) an account

Michael Foot (1913–2010) was a British politician.