1661 Holy Sisters Conspiracy 7 I am but a poor footer of stockings.

1754 Admon. from Dead xviii. 243 No Matter that my Father was an Alderman of London, and yours was a Footer of Old-hose.

1844 Leics. Mercury & Gen. Advertiser Midland Counties 17 Aug. The 2s. 1d. would have to be divided between the legger, footer, and seamer.

1876 Capital & Lab 12 Jan. 33/1 The stockings were worked upon in turn by three different workmen, called respectively a legger, a footer, and a heeler.

1891 Rep. Commissioners Universal Expos. 1889 Paris III. 384 (caption) in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (51st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 410, Pt. 3) XL The Aiken full-fashioned footer.

1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 95 In the manufacture of stockings..two machines are used... One of these machines, termed the ‘legger’, knits the upper and longer part of the stocking, whereas the other machine, termed the ‘footer’, knits the remainder of the stocking.

1993 P. Scranton in G. Jones & M. B. Rose Family Capitalism 129 Quaker Hosiery..invested about $1 million in new leggers and footers.

1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 89/2 Footer, a stroke at a football.

1844 Bell's Life in London 9 June 8/2 The book comprises the following:—1, Technical terms; 2, The game..; 6, Standing on the footer to play.

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 180/2 The ‘footer’ is the small piece of material—cocoa-nut matting is the best—whereon each player stands in delivering the ball.

1911 C. H. Miller Outdoor Sports & Games xx. 366 The position from which the balls are delivered is called the ‘footer’.

2013 I. Owen Land of Pure Delight viii. 121 When bowling, players must keep their toe on the little rubber mat—we call it the footer.

1873 F. H. Salvin & W. Brodrick Falconry in Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 150 (gloss.) Foot.—To clutch: thus you say a good or sure footer.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 7/1 A hawk is said to ‘foot’ well or to be a ‘good footer’ when she is successful in killing.

1881 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 40 A better ‘footer’—more clever at seizing the quarry in his talons.

1952 C. E. L'Ami Green Madonna xiii. 97 The falconer smiled and picked a stout goshawk from the next block... ‘A good footer, she is, and flies like the wind.’

1999 A. Walker Encycl. Falconry 47/1 A good footer is a hawk which is naturally dextrous with her feet when taking quarry.

1975 Computing Center Memo (Univ. of Michigan) No. 302. 4 A new statement footer has been defined to allow the user to specify a ‘footer’ to be printed at the bottom of each page of the listing.

1987 Financial Times 26 Jan. 18/3 The current number can be printed out automatically in a header or footer, together with the author's name, time and date of revision.

1994 PC Mag. 20 Dec. 289/1 I've found no way to enter the footer except by typing it in.

2007 L. Ackerman Blackwell's Five-minute Vet. Pract. Managem. Consult xii. 488/1 Include either your full name or your last name in the footer on each page to ensure that no pages are lost.

1748 Oratory Mag. 3 78 This may touch a Mimic, a bungling Derider, a Footer, not the Man of Judgment, not my Lord Shaftsbury.

1753 A. Murphy True Intell. in Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 36 A Thief, a low Fellow, a Footer.

1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 38 Footer, a scurvy fellow; a term of contempt.

1904 J. J. Bell Jess & Co. viii. 173 Oh, ye auld footer, ye've waukened her again!

1911 S. J. G. Ervine Mixed Marriage ii. 24 Aw, g'long wi' ye, ye ould footer.

1947 H. W. Pryde First Bk. McFlannels viii. 82 ‘You're a wee footer!’ declared Sarah. ‘There never was a family like this for grumbling about their food.’

1863 Boy's Own Vol. July 36 A peculiar fashion of their own [at Harrow] which prompts them to call football ‘footer’.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 1/3 Who'd have thought of finding the old smug at a footer match?

1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xvi. 155 To perform on the footer field with a lot of young louts.

1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. i. 30 I had to change for F-f-footer.

2005 J. Brand It's Different for Girls xxiv. 308 We don't go out Thursdays or Tuesdays 'cause he plays footer on a Thursday and I do my washing on a Tuesday.

1813 G. MacIndoe Wandering Muse 91 To think on Fortune's scourie gait, Frae ony poor tyke in a strait Her een to steek; And, when sae fouter'd, ne'er lat wit She kens sic like.

1866 T. Edmonston Gloss. Dial. Shetland & Orkney 35 Footer, to disapprove, to hinder.

a1899 D. Nicolson MS Coll. Caithness Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 449/2 To footre one out of an opinion or argument.

1928 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland I. 205/2 Futer, to check; prevent; stand in one's way; ‘he futerd me’; ‘I futerd him’.

1929 H. Marwick Orkney Norn 45/1 The bad weather clean footered wur hairst wark.

1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. 20/1 Footer,..to impede or hinder... Footered, prevented from doing something.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Fouter, Footer, to bungle. Aberd.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Footer, to idle.

1890 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 806/1 ‘And yerself's a rale man, Randal!’ says I—‘safe to be footherin' round where ye're not wanted.’

1928 J. Agate Gemel in London xxxii. 239 Here you are, footerin' about in a big place where naebody kens you and naebody wants you.

1985 R. McLeish Gorbals Story i. 34 (stage direct.) Ahmed has brought pot of potatoes over to the fireplace—he is footering about.

2005 R. Douglas Night Song Last Tram 280 I pretended to be still footering with my books.