单词 | to take to foot |
释义 | > as lemmasto take to foot c. to take to one's feet (or †foot): to go on foot as opposed to travelling on horseback or in a vehicle; to begin or continue walking or running. Also occasionally to take to foot. Formerly also with verb betake, and in reflexive construction. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] treadc897 stepc900 goeOE gangOE walka1375 wanderc1380 foota1425 to take to footc1440 awalkc1540 trade1547 beat it on the hoof1570 pad1610 to be (also beat, pad) upon the hoofa1616 trample1624 to pad (also pad upon) the hoof1683 ambulate1724 shank1773 stump it1803 pedestrianize1811 pedestrianate1845 tramp it1862 ankle1916 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in contrast with 'ride' to walk on footc1390 to take to one's feet (or foot)1508 to walk afoot1565 walk1631 to hoof it1652 peripateticate1793 foot-slog1897 c1440 (a1400) Sir Eglamour (Thornton) (1965) l. 588 When þat his nobyll stede was dede: To fote he gane hym tane. 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 216 Throu Ingland, thef, and tak the to thy fute. 1579 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) iv. i. f. 104 The cowardly..Souldiour..betaketh him to his feete and trudgeth away. 1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie ii. 4 Hee [sc. a spaniel] is not bound or tied vnto him, but might therefore take to his feete and runne quite from him. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. § 131. 161 Seizing on a naked Sword, [he] made after the Boy, who seeing him coming so armed, betook himself to his Feet, and ran for his Life. 1730 Compl. Coll. State-trials II. (ed. 2) 622/2 Q. But of whom had you a Horse? A. Where I could have none, I took me to my Feet. 1779 F. Burney Let. 15 June in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 307 I took to my Feet & ran away. 1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle i. 19 I should have alighted and taken to my feet. 1881 G. A. Henty Cornet of Horse 38 The man took to his feet and fled. 1903 Rosary Mag. June 576 We abandoned our mules and took to foot. 1947 N.Y. Times 16 Nov. x. 17/6 Here he takes to his feet, following a section of the FB-SK—Fingerboard-Storm King—Trail. 2015 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 15 June (Life section) 31 We'd urge everyone to leave behind the stresses of sitting in traffic and take to your feet to enjoy the many benefits walking offers. < as lemmas |
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