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foot-pace|ˈfʊtpeɪs|
[See pace n.]
1. A walking pace. Chiefly in advb. phr. a foot-pace, at (or † in) a foot-pace = at a walking pace.
1538Eliot, Pedepressim, a foote pase, softly. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 149 The best lacketh feete, foote pace with vs to holde. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 315 Cause him every day to be led up and down a foot pace a quarter of an hour. 1637Breton Poste w. packet Wks. (Grosart) 41/1 For your foot-pace, I thinke you haue sore heeles, you walke so nicely, as vpon egge⁓shels. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. v. (1686) 5 Being oblig'd..to toil their Horses all day, over deep Fallows, in a foot⁓pace only. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 90 The child was riding only a foot pace. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities i. ii. ‘Come on at a footpace, d'ye mind me?’
2. Something on which to tread or set the feet.
†a. A carpet or mat. Obs.
1585Nomenclator 249/2 Storea..a mat: a footepase of sedges. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xl. 160 A Chair of State..and at the foot of it a Cushion of the same, all upon an exceeding large foot-pace of tapestry. 1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey).
b. A raised portion of a floor; a dais or platform; e.g. the step or raised floor on which an altar stands.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Marche-pied, a foote⁓pace, a threshold, a groundsill. 1598in Mem. Stepney Parish (1890–1) 34 Item, that there be made about the communion table a raile wth a foote pace and mattes thereon to kneele vpon. 1612Bacon Ess., Judicature (Arb.) 456 The place of Justice is an hallowed place; and therefore not onely the bench, but the footepace and precincts and purprise thereof ought to bee preserued with⁓out scandall and corruption. a1676Whitelocke Mem. (1682) 609 At the upper end upon a Foot pace and Carpet, stood the Protector with a Chair of State behind him. a1697Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) V. 193 The Communion Table..[is] placed on a fine black and white Footpace. 1845Ecclesiologist IV. 102 The footpace, or altar-platform. 1872Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms, Footpace..a raised flooring in a bay window.
c. A hearth-stone.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 181 The crickets chirping behind the chimney stock; or creeping upon the foot-pace. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 220 Some Pavements, (as in Foot⁓paces before Chimneys). 1840Parker Gloss. Archit., Foot⁓pace. This term is also sometimes used for the hearth⁓stone.
d. A half landing on a staircase or flight of steps; also called half-pace.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 160 Foot-pace, is a part of a pair of Stairs..where you make two or three paces before you ascend another step. 1842Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss., Foot Pace or Half Pace. |