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ˈthree-foot, a. †a. = three-footed. Obs. b. Measuring three feet in length, breadth, or other dimension.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 52 The wisest Aunt..Sometime for three-foot stoole, mistaketh me. 1675Hobbes Odyss. 155 A caldron, or a three-foot pot of brass. 1870Mrs. J. H. Riddell A. Friars iv, The usual three-foot passage leading from the front door to the kitchen. 1880A. A. Common in Mem. Roy. Astron. Soc. XLVI. 173 Particulars of the Mounting of a Three-Foot Reflector. |