英语词汇“on footback”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Travelling on foot; walking. Chiefly in on footback: on foot; by walking; cf. afoot-back adv. at afoot adv. and adj. Compounds. Also in figurative context.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > on foot [phrase]

on footOE

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1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. A2^v Beggers [have forgot] that euer they caried their fardles on footback.

1644 Court Mercurie 7 Sept. Such newes..trots on foot-back to his friends in London.

1682 T. Thompson Midsummer-Moon 7 He on lofty ten-toes did advance, And through the Streets on foot-back proudly prance.

1718 J. Breval Play is Plot ii. i. 24 Will your Worship have him exercis'd on Footback or on Horseback, an't please you.

1765 Poor Robin Pref. sig. A^v I cannot imagine there is one in an hundred so devoutly religious, but, on a very snowy or rainy Day, will rather sit down contentedly at home and read some good Book than go five Miles on Foot-back to hear a bad Sermon.

1877 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 29 Sept. Here all railroad ends and you have your choice between stage and ‘footback’.

1895 Stoves & Hardware Reporter 4 July 16/1 One afternoon this week I covered the distance on footback, as they say here.

1938 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 17 Mar. 1/3 An army on footback and on horseback captured Fifth avenue today without firing a shot.

2011 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 23 Mar. 14 John says that, in his part of Victoria, they prefer to say that they ‘got there on footback’.

单词	on footback
释义	> as lemmas on footback Travelling on foot; walking. Chiefly in on footback: on foot; by walking; cf. afoot-back adv. at afoot adv. and adj. Compounds. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > on foot [phrase] on footOE on footback1589 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. A2^v Beggers [have forgot] that euer they caried their fardles on footback. 1644 Court Mercurie 7 Sept. Such newes..trots on foot-back to his friends in London. 1682 T. Thompson Midsummer-Moon 7 He on lofty ten-toes did advance, And through the Streets on foot-back proudly prance. 1718 J. Breval Play is Plot ii. i. 24 Will your Worship have him exercis'd on Footback or on Horseback, an't please you. 1765 Poor Robin Pref. sig. A^v I cannot imagine there is one in an hundred so devoutly religious, but, on a very snowy or rainy Day, will rather sit down contentedly at home and read some good Book than go five Miles on Foot-back to hear a bad Sermon. 1877 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 29 Sept. Here all railroad ends and you have your choice between stage and ‘footback’. 1895 Stoves & Hardware Reporter 4 July 16/1 One afternoon this week I covered the distance on footback, as they say here. 1938 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 17 Mar. 1/3 An army on footback and on horseback captured Fifth avenue today without firing a shot. 2011 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 23 Mar. 14 John says that, in his part of Victoria, they prefer to say that they ‘got there on footback’. extracted from footbackn.adv.adj. < as lemmas
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