单词 | ball of the foot |
释义 | > as lemmasball of the foot 13. Chiefly in ball of the foot. extracted from balln.1 a. The prominent part of the sole of the human foot between the base of the toes and the arch or instep. Formerly also: †the sole of the foot (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [noun] > sole > hollow of ball of the footc1350 c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 4* Taloun pee plaunte et kyuyl, Hele fot bal and ancle. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 8 A Balle of þe hand or of þe fote, callus. 1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline ix. 29 In the Motion of Facings every man turned on the center, or Ball of the left foot, moving onely the right. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 122 They..hold one end of it down with the Ball of the Foot. 1706 tr. L. Verduc Manner curing Fractures xxx. 134 in tr. A. Belloste Hosp. Surgeon (ed. 2) The Heel, which turns outwards, is so affected, that the Patient can't stand upon it, and so can only rest upon the Ball of his Foot. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 14 The recruit brings the ball of the right foot to the left heel. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 18 Nov. 3/2 My feet..slipped on the pedal till I was treadmilling clumsily with the middle instead of the ball of the foot. 1950 S. Thompson Old Time Dancing (1951) i. 7 It is the poise forward, with your weight on the balls of the feet that makes Waltzing such a pleasure. 2004 Zest Dec. 54/2 Clenching your toes and putting extra pressure on the ball of your foot..can lead to problems such as Morton's neuroma. b. The central part of an animal's foot, as the rounded part of a bird's foot between the claws, the frog of a horse's hoof, the pad of a dog's foot. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > ball ball of the foot1575 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 344 If a hawkes feete be but swolne, & haue not any knubs in the ball of the foote. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. x. 62 If the horses hoofe be ouer hollow, you shal then pare away no part of the ball of the foot. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Expeditate, signifieth in the Forrest Law, to cut out the balls of the dogs feet, for the preservation of the Kings Game. 1704 Dict. Rusticum sig. Mm6/1 The Frog of the [horse's] Foot, by some called the Ball of the Foot. 1835 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 5 171 The irons which had been made red-hot were..thrust..into the ball of the [camel's] foot. 1941 A. R. Winter & E. M. Funk Poultry, Sci. & Pract. xi. 385 Symptoms of chick dermatitis include..development of wartlike protuberances on the balls of the feet. 1980 K. Thear in K. Thear & A. Fraser Small Farmer's Guide to Raising Livestock & Poultry (U.S. ed.) ii. 61/1 A two-year-old Rhode x Light Sussex hen which was limping... An examination revealed a hard abscess on the ball of the foot. < as lemmas |
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