footed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of foot

comparative more footed · superlative most footed

1. Having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.

   Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled, / At certain revolutions all the damned / Are brought;

   1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 596-8

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   Scarsely had Phœbus in the glooming East / Yet harnessed his firie-footed teeme, / Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast;

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 2

   This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find / The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late / Tie leaden pounds to's heels.

   c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]

   To maintaine therefore that sconce of thine, strongly guarded, and in good reparation, never suffer combe to fasten his teeth there: let thy haire grow thick and bushy like a forest, or some wildernesse; lest those sixe-footed creatures that breed in it, and are Tenants to that crowneland of thine, bee hunted to death by every base barbarous Barber; and so that delicate, and tickling pleasure of scratching, be utterly taken from thee:

   1609, Thomas Dekker, “The Guls Hornbook”, in The Guls Hornbook and The Belman of London, London: J.M. Dent, published 1936, page 27

   On the east was only laid a single table. But there as well were placed carved screens, covered with dragons, and a short low-footed couch, with a full assortment of back-cushions, reclining-cushions and skin-rugs.

   1892, Cao Xueqin, chapter LIII, in H. Bencraft Joly, Book II, transl., Dream of the Red Chamber

   […] the leaves fell from the trees till they stood as though it were winter, and the small tough-footed boys ran from shade to shade because of the heat of the ground.

   1948, Alan Paton, chapter 31, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, published 1987

2. in compoundsusuallyhuman sciencesConsisting of, or having been put into, metrical feet (of a specified character or number).

   each six-footed line of the verse

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   2003, Tony K. Stewart, Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore, The Lover of God, Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, p. 12, As for the strict forms in which the original poems were written, it seemed an empty exercise to force English into those particular strictures, which in Bengali literary tradition are richly associative but which in English are not. The familiar fourteen-syllable payār couplet with its aa bb cc rhymes and the more intricate three-footed tripadi of variable length and rhyme were the first casualties of the process.

3. Having a foot