Air shaft
() A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel. |
Bear's-foot
(n.) A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic. |
Bird's-foot
(n.) A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. |
Butt shaft
() An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts |
Cat's-foot
(n.) A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip |
Cistern
(n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids. |
Cistern
(n.) A natural reservoir |
Crow's-foot
(n.) The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes. |
Crow's-foot
(n.) A caltrop. |
Crow's-foot
(n.) Same as Bird's-mouth. |
Dove's-foot
(n.) A small annual species of Geranium, native in England |
Dove's-foot
(n.) The columbine. |
Dredge
(n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging |
Dredge
(n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. |
Dredge
(v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge |
Dredge
(n.) A mixture of oats and barley. |
Dredge
(v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. |
Duck's-foot
(n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). |
Flat foot
() A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground |
Fleet-foot
(a.) Swift of foot. |
Foot
(n.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal |
Foot
(n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum. |
Foot
(n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal |
Foot
(n.) The lowest part or base |
Foot
(n.) Fundamental principle |
Foot
(n.) Recognized condition |
Foot
(n.) A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches |
Foot
(n.) Soldiers who march and fight on foot |
Foot
(n.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent. |
Foot
(n.) The lower edge of a sail. |
Foot
(v. i.) To tread to measure or music |
Foot
(v. i.) To walk |
Foot
(v. t.) To kick with the foot |
Foot
(v. t.) To set on foot |
Foot
(v. t.) To tread |
Foot
(v. t.) To sum up, as the numbers in a column |
Foot
(v. t.) The size or strike with the talon. |
Foot
(v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking. |
Foot Guards
(pl.) Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards. |
Foot pound
() A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot. |
Foot poundal
() A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal. |
Foot-sore
(a.) Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking |
Hare's-foot fern
() A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock |
Hen's-foot
(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Caucalis daucoides). |
Light-foot
(a.) Alt. of Light-footed |
Lion's foot
() A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States. |
Lion's foot
() The edelweiss. |
Polt-foot
(a.) Alt. of Polt-footed |
Rock shaft
() A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Shaft
(n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow |
| foot | travel by walking, he followed on foot, the swiftest of foot |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
animal foot
foot | the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings |
| fossorial foot | foot adapted for digging as in moles |
cloven foot
cloven hoof | a hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine) |
| bird's foot | the foot of a bird |
| zygodactyl foot | a bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward |
| heterodactyl foot | a bird's foot having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward |
| webbed foot | a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes |
| lobate foot | a bird's foot having separate toes each with membranous flaps along the sides |
| horse's foot | the hoof of a horse |
chicken louse
shaft louse
Menopon palladum
Menopon gallinae | a louse parasitic on poultry |
leaf-footed bug
leaf-foot bug | large sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs |
foot
invertebrate foot | any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates |
| tube foot | tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration |
| quill calamus shaft | the hollow spine of a feather |
air shaft
air well | a shaft for ventilation |
| butt shaft | a blunt arrow without a barb, an arrow used for target practice |
cesspool
cesspit
sink sump | a covered cistern, waste water and sewage flow into it |
| cistern | an artificial reservoir for storing liquids, especially an underground tank for storing rainwater |
| cistern water tank | a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet |
| dredge | a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed |
| elevator shaft | a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor |
| foot | a support resembling a pedal extremity, one foot of the chair was on the carpet |
| foot brake | hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal |
| foot rule | a ruler one foot long |
foundation
base fundament
foot
groundwork
substructure
understructure | lowest support of a structure, it was built on a base of solid rock, he stood at the foot of the tower |
pedal
treadle
foot pedal
foot lever | a lever that is operated with the foot |
rotating shaft
shaft | a revolving rod that transmits power or motion |
rotor head
rotor shaft | the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns |
| shaft | a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) |
| shaft | a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel |
| shaft scape | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column |
| shaft | a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) |
spear
lance
shaft | a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon |
| sump | a well or other hole in which water has collected |
| sump | an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine |
| sump pump | a suction pump for removing liquid from a sump |
| transmission shaft | rotating shaft that transmits rotary motion from the engine to the differential |
| ventilation shaft | a shaft in a building, serves as an air passage for ventilation |
cisterna
cistern | a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid |
cock
prick
dick
shaft pecker
peter
tool
putz | obscene terms for penis |
vertebrate foot
pedal extremity | the extremity of the limb in vertebrates |
foot human foot
pes | the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint, his bare feet projected from his trousers, armored from head to foot |
diaphysis
shaft | the main (mid) section of a long bone |
shot
shaft slam
dig
barb
jibe
gibe | an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect, his parting shot was `drop dead', she threw shafts of sarcasm, she takes a dig at me every chance she gets |
cloven hoof
cloven foot | the mark of Satan |
| shaft | a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer |
metrical foot
foot
metrical unit | (prosody) a group of or syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
footrace
foot race
run | a race run on foot, she broke the record for the half-mile run |