| 单词 | six-footed |
| 释义 | > as lemmassix-footed 4. As the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having a height, length, etc., of the specified number of feet, as six-footed, twelve-footed, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [adjective] > two, etc., feet long or wide bipedalc1420 footed1568 septipedal1606 twelve-footed1611 septempedal1656 two-foot1664 six-foot1681 fourteen-foot1890 two-foot-wide1891 1568 W. Fulwood Enimie Idlenesse i. f. 76 And if euer you sawe man of warre play better with a two footed swoord, then say boldly that I am a lyar. 1616 R. Sheldon Suruey Miracles Church of Rome 303 The twelue-footed man, as he is measured by Petrus de Natalibus! 1635 W. Wood New Englands Prospect (ed. 2) i. vi. 21 This Woolfe, whose mouth watering at a few poore impaled Kiddes, would needes leape over a five-footed [1634 five-foote] pale to be at them. 1708 Brit. Apollo 10–15 Dec. A Fifteen-Footed Dish Exactly Nicks the Tail o'th' Fish. 1761 T. Arnold Bailey's Compl. Eng. Dict. (German ed.) II. 398/1 Siebenschuhiger Kerl, (ein) a seven-footed Lath-Back, a slim long Fellow. 2013 B. Evaristo Mr Loverman vi. 107 Then she elevates herself in all of her sloshed, six-footed, be-heeled glory, staggers over to Morris and grabs his shoulders. six-footed six-footed adj. ΚΠ 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. iv And art thou there six footed Mercury? 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 231 Words of six-footed dimension. < as lemmas |
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