Pronunciations
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/ˈfʊtɪd/
Adjective
Having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.
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Scarsely had Phœbus in the glooming East / Yet harnessed his firie-footed teeme, / Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast;
This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find / The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late / Tie leaden pounds to's heels.
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To maintaine therefore that sconce of thine, strongly guarded, and in good reparation, never suffer combe to fasten his teeth there: let thy haire grow thick and bushy like a forest, or some wildernesse; lest those sixe-footed creatures that breed in it, and are Tenants to that crowneland of thine, bee hunted to death by every base barbarous Barber; and so that delicate, and tickling pleasure of scratching, be utterly taken from thee:
Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled, / At certain revolutions all the damned / Are brought;
On the east was only laid a single table. But there as well were placed carved screens, covered with dragons, and a short low-footed couch, with a full assortment of back-cushions, reclining-cushions and skin-rugs.
[…] the leaves fell from the trees till they stood as though it were winter, and the small tough-footed boys ran from shade to shade because of the heat of the ground.
Inside is one cozy room, half the kitchen area taken up by an ornate footed stove.
Perhaps the earliest drawing of a dragon, a footed snake with a humanoid head, apparently dated from the third millennium b.c.e.
Jess […] moved aside so that her father, sock-footed and carrying a plate with a sandwich on it, could reenter the sitting room.
Footed pajamas are good as well, especially once your baby starts to crawl and roll around.
Consisting of, or having been put into, metrical feet (of a specified character or number).
Usage- In compounds
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2003, Tony K. Stewart, Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore, The Lover of God, Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, p. 12, As for the strict forms in which the original poems were written, it seemed an empty exercise to force English into those particular strictures, which in Bengali literary tradition are richly associative but which in English are not. The familiar fourteen-syllable payār couplet with its aa bb cc rhymes and the more intricate three-footed tripadi of variable length and rhyme were the first casualties of the process.
each six-footed line of the verse
Having a foot
Usage- of a vessel
Adjective
having feet
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footed creatures
a footed sofa