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单词 footmeal
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footmealn.

Brit. /ˈfʊtmiːl/, U.S. /ˈfʊtˌmil/
Forms: see foot n. and meal n.2; also Middle English votinels (plural, transmission error).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: foot n., meal n.2
Etymology: < foot n. + meal n.2 With sense 1 compare footmeal adv. With sense 2 compare post-classical Latin fotmellum (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), Anglo-Norman fotmel , fotmal , formell (c1253 or earlier; both < English). Compare also post-classical Latin use of classical Latin pēs (see -ped comb. form) in sense 2 (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources). In this sense, the Middle English word is attested earliest in a post-classical Latin contexts (compare quot. ?a1300, although this could also be taken to reflect the Anglo-Norman borrowing). Compare formell n.
1. = foot n. 6a; a distance or length likened to the length of the human foot; a very short distance. Also in by footmeal: foot by foot. Obsolete.
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance > a very short distance
footmealOE
hair-brede14..
hairbreadth1561
hair's breadth1584
micromillimetre1987
OE tr. Wonders of East (Tiber.) §16. 194 Ðær beoð dracan kende, ða beoð on lenge hundteontiges fotmæla [L. pedum] and fiftiges lange.
OE Battle of Maldon (1942) 275 Eadweard se langa..gylpwordum spræc þæt he nolde fleogan fotmæl landes, ofer bæc bugan, þa his betera leg.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1086 Se þe wæs ærur rice cyng & maniges landes hlaford, he næfde þa ealles landes buton seofon fotmæl.
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 1531 (MED) x footemel [L. decempedis] the centeneris take.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xv. 901 The Spaniards not ceassing..to winne aduantage by footmeale [Fr. pour s'auancer & gagner..vn pied, tantost vn autre].
2. A unit of weight equal to a thirtieth of a fother or load, typically used for measuring lead. Now historical.Although varying in exact weight at different periods and in different regions, the footmeal is often stated as being equal to 70 lb.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > units for lead or lead ore
footmeal?a1300
fother1375
formella1690
bing1876
?a1300 in Stat. of the Realm (1810) I. 205 Item charrus plumbi constat ex xxx fotmals; Et quodlibet fotmal constat ex vj petris, ij libris minus; Et quelibet petra constat ex xij libris..Summa librarum in le fotmal lxx li..Sed in quolibet fotmal subtrahuntur ij li.
1375–6 in R. E. G. Kirk Acct. Abingdon Abbey (1892) 30 Et ad iactandum xvj vothres vj votinels [read votmels] plumbi in pondere, C s.
a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 70 Sex waxpunde makiet .j. ledpound .xij. ledpunde .j. fotmel. .xxiiij. fotmel .j. fothir of Bristouwe.
c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 191 (MED) Of eche carre of lede, viij d.; of eche fotmel, j d.
1540 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) VII. 349 Gevin for the fraucht of liij pece of coppir in fodmellis and caikis.
1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. S4v Fotmel, a Weight of Lead of Ten stone or Seventy pounds, as in this remarkable Authority, for the mensuration of Lead.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. x. 168 This [charrus] contained thirty fontinelli [misread for fotmelli], fotmael, pedes, or pigs.
1911 Notes & Queries 17 June 477/2 It was probably the uncertainty of the statute fotmal that led to the use of boole-weight based on the new stone of 14 lb.
2005 I. Blanchard Mining, Metall. & Minting in Middle Ages III. viii. 1443 Until the 1420s the fother used in Oxford was the Derbyshire measure: 1 foot or fotmael = 5 stones x 14 lbs. =70 lbs. 1 fother = 30 fotmaels = 2,100 lbs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

footmealadv.

Brit. /ˈfʊtmiːl/, U.S. /ˈfʊtˌmil/
Forms: see foot n. and -meal suffix.
Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly formed within English, by derivation. Probably partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: foot n., -meal suffix; footmeal n.
Etymology: Probably partly < foot n. + -meal suffix, and partly < footmeal n.
1. Step by step; bit by bit, gradually. Cf. by footmeal at footmeal n. 1. Obsolete.Only in Old English.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > gradually or in stages
footmealeOE
(a, by) lite and litec1290
a little and a littlea1375
little and littlea1387
(by) some and some1398
by little and by littlea1425
little by little?a1425
littly?a1425
inchmeal1530
by small and small1558
by (a) little1577
gradatim1583
by lithe and lithe1592
by inchesa1616
inch by incha1616
to go slow1664
eOE Erfurt Gloss. (1974) 44 Pedetemptim, caute quasi pede temptans uel fotmelum.
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 217 Gradatim, fægre uel fotmælum.
OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) li. 105 Residui tres.., pedetemptim ad similitudinem querentium quid, ueniant ante locum sepulchri : þa oþre ðry..fotmælum & gelicnysse secendra sum þincg cuman toforan stowe þæs byrgenes.
2. As measured in feet. poetic and rare in later use.
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a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 1517 Vch centyner take vp the werk footmel [L. accipiunt pedaturas]..anoon caste vp the dich.
2001 A. Klein Rangefinder & Powderhorn 120 And ‘spaces’ measured footmeal now reach record tops.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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footmeal
1. A measure. Usually with modifying word indicating the thing used as a unit of measurement, as fingermeal, footmeal, etc.; cf. -meal suffix. Obsolete.See also footmeal n. 1, fingermeal n. at finger n. Compounds 2a.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > a measure
mealeOE
metlOE
metea1871
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xlv. 110 Do wines þrie mel on & sele drincan.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. vi. 184 Finoles sædes, & diles þreo cucler mæl.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1086 Se þe wæs ærur rice cyng & maniges landes hlaford, he næfde þa ealles landes buton seofon fotmæl.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxv. 25 A..coroun with foure fynger-mele heyȝt [a1425 L.V. foure fyngris hiȝ; L. altam].
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 154 Al maner wounde þat is maad in þe extremitiees [read of] þe lacertis as iij fyngir mele brede vndir þe schuldris.
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