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单词 foot pace
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foot pacen.

Brit. /ˈfʊt peɪs/, U.S. /ˈfʊt ˌpeɪs/
Forms: see foot n. and pace n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: foot n., pace n.1
Etymology: < foot n. + pace n.1
1. Walking pace. Chiefly in adverbial phrases, as †a foot pace, at (also †in) (a) foot pace: at a walking pace. See also at (a) foot's pace at foot n. and int. Phrases 8b.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > [phrase] > at a walking pace
to hold (also keep) foot withc1438
at (also in) (a) foot pace1538
hay-foot, straw-foot1898
the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > on foot > a walking pace
pacea1393
foot pace1538
walking pace1621
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Pedepressim, a foote pase, softly.
1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. C.i The best lacketh feete, foote pace with vs to holde.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 405 Cause him euery day to be ledde vp and downe a foot pace a quarter of an houre.
1697 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 4) App. i. 4 Being oblig'd..to toil their Horses all day, over deep Fallows, in a Foot-pace only.
1739 J. Wesley Let. 2 Apr. (1931) I. 289 My horse was so tired he could scarce go a foot-pace.
1779 N. W. Wraxall Let. 4 Mar. in Mem. Courts (1799) II. 231 Every part of Bohemia..he has rode over, almost at a foot-pace.
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 90 The child was riding only a foot pace.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. ii. 5 ‘Come on at a footpace; d'ye mind me?’
1917 E. M. Rhodes West is West xxiii. 252 Rainboldt swung lightly to the saddle and rode out at a footpace, southward through the glowing sun.
1956 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 76 27 He..proceeded southwards with his cavalry, leaving the infantry to follow at a foot pace.
2009 J. Westwood & S. Kingshill Lore of Scotl. 446/1 This is a time-honoured way for oral folklore to be shared around, at foot pace and within sight of a particular landmark.
2. Something on which to walk or stand.
a. A carpet or mat. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > mat
mateOE
foot-cloth1344
nata1425
foot pace1543
stuorie1555
mattress1658
petate1843
1543 Inventory 1 June in London Consistory Court Wills 1492–1547 (1967) 102 In the Halle...2 fott pacys and 2 lytell fott paces 8d.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 249/2 Storea..a mat: a footepase of sedges.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures 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.
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Foot-pace, a Cloth, Mat, &c. spread about a Bed or Chair of State, &c.
b. A raised portion of a floor; a dais or platform; spec. the step or raised floor on which an altar stands.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised level surface or platform
plancher1295
staging1323
cagea1400
scaffoldc1405
mounture?a1425
halpace1507
wharf1533
platform1557
plat1559
foot pace1571
theatre1587
scenec1612
estrade1696
suggestum1705
tribune1763
scaffolding1787
estrado1838
dais1861
deck1872
society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > altar > parts of altar > [noun] > platform for
halpace1507
half-pace1569
foot pace1571
1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. T/1 Vn Marchepied, a footepace, a threshold, a groundsill.
1598 in 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.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 218 The place of Iustice is an hallowed place; and therefore not onely the bench, but the footepace and precincts and purprise thereof ought to bee preserued without scandall and corruption.
a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1655 609/2 At the upper end upon a Foot pace and Carpet, stood the Protector with a Chair of State behind him.
1708 E. Hatton New View London II. 369/2 At the W. end of the Church, is a marble Font standing on a marble Foot-pace.
1771 J. Murray Hist. Churches Eng. & Scotl. II. 470 The chalice was covered with a linen napkin,..the foot pace with three accents covered with a Turkey carpet.
1845 Ecclesiologist 4 102 The footpace, or altar-platform.
1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms Footpace..a raised flooring in a bay window.
1903 J. M. Falkner Nebuly Coat xii. 180 Westray stood on a foot-pace at the end of the loft which allowed him to look over the curtain into the church.
1961 Furrow 12 16 It would have been better to have arranged a wide footpace on both sides of the altar.
2007 G. F. Giffords Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, & Light 229/2 Collateral altars... were to be raised only one step above the nave, creating a footpace, or predella.
c. A hearthstone. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > hearthstone
hearthstonea1325
fire hearth1440
firestone1613
hearth-pace1621
foot pace1652
slab1876
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 181 The crickets chirping behind the chimney stock; or creeping upon the foot-pace.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 220 Some Pavements, (as in Foot-paces before Chimneys).
1840 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 3) 93 Foot-pace, the dais. This term is also sometimes used for the hearth-stone.
d. A landing halfway up a staircase or flight of steps. Cf. half-pace n. 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > stairs > [noun] > landing
half-pace1611
landing-place1611
rest1611
resting place1645
plate1661
hearth-pacec1675
foot pace1679
stand1709
flat1730
quarter-pace1730
landing1789
landing floor1856
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 167 Foot-pace, is a part of a paire of Stairs..where you make two or three paces before you ascend another step.
1734 W. Salmon Palladio Londinensis iii. ii. 113 At every corner of the Newel there is a square Foot-pace.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 976 Foot Pace or Half Pace.
1995 F. D. K. Ching Visual Dict. Archit. 234 Pace, A raised step or platform, esp. one serving as a landing..at the end of a short flight of steps. Also called footpace.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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