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单词 hare-foot
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hare-footn.

1. Also hare's foot. The foot of a hare, or a foot resembling a hare's; spec. a long narrow foot found in some dogs.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > like foot of hare
hare's foot1747
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > parts of > (parts of) leg and foot
dew-claw1575
water claw1611
hare's foot1747
pastern1845
toe-tufta1858
trousersa1907
culotte1928
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > parts of
scut1530
bunc1538
hare's foot1747
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xviii. 106 Better a bare foot, than none at all; that is to say, than not to be able to walk.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 329/2 Hare-foot, a long, narrow foot, carried far forward.
1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 161 American standards permit hare-feet.
1952 A. W. Hunter Leighton's Compl. Bk. Dog (rev. ed.) v. 80 Faults: [in Boxer]..hare's feet.
2. A nickname for a swift-footed person.? Obsolete.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > running > a runner > a swift runner
hare-footc1410
flight1579
swift-foot1825
scud1857
sharpshins1883
rabbit1925
speedster1927
c1410 Chron. Eng. 899 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II Harald, Godwyne sone He was cleped Harefot, for he was urnare god.
a1491 J. Rous Hist. Regum Angliæ 105 Haroldus Harfote quasi levis in cursu ut lepus aliquis.
1652 (?c1437) Chron. in R. Twysden Hist. Anglicanæ Scriptores X 932 Propter levitatem pedum & cursus Haraldus Harefot communiter extitit appellatus.
3. A plant; = hare's-foot n. 1 ? Obsolete.
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a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 555/6 Auencia,..harefot.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 24 Harefote, avancia.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Pi/1 Harefoote, herb, lagopus.
4. Name given to the ptarmigan and other species of Lagopus, from the densely feathered feet. ? Obsolete.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Haresfoot..also a kind of Bird.]
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Harefoot. 1. A bird. Ainsworth.
5. Used adverbially: swiftly. poetic.
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1939 T. S. Eliot Family Reunion i. ii. 60 What of the terrified spirit Compelled..To rise toward the violent sun..Harefoot over the moon?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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