Word Meanings - TURTLE-FOOTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Slow-footed. "Turtle-footed Peace." Ford.

Related words: (words related to TURTLE-FOOTED)

• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• FOOTHOLD
  A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
• TURTLE PEG
  A sharp steel spear attached to a cord, used in taking sea turtles. -- Turtle pegging.
• 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.
• 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.
• FOOTWAY
  A passage for pedestrians only.
• FOOTWORN
  Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler.
• FOOTING
  The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot. Footing course , one of the courses of masonry at the foot of a wall, broader than the courses above. -- To pay one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as
• FOOT VALVE
  A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the air pump.
• FOOTBOY
  A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey. Shak.
• TURTLEDOVE
  Any one of numerous species of pigeons belonging to Turtur and allied genera, native of various parts of the Old World; especially, the common European species , which is noted for its plaintive note, affectionate disposition, and devotion to its
• FOOTBALL
  An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. Waller. 2. The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals. Arbuthnot.
• 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.
• FOURFOOTED
  Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
• 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.
• BAREFOOTED
  Having the feet bare.
• TIGER-FOOTED
  Hastening to devour; furious.
• CANDLE FOOT
  The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot; --used as a unit of illumination.