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▪ I. footer, n.1|ˈfʊtə(r)|
[f. foot n. or v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who goes on foot, a pedestrian. rare.
1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 780 Being none of the best footers she could hardly keep way with the Spider. 1890Baring-Gould Old Co. Life 327 The tor is covered with horses, traps, carriages, footers.
b. One who walks in a place, a frequenter.
1890Univ. Rev. 15 July 317 This shy footer of solitudes.
2. Falconry. Of the hawk: (see foot v. 6).
1879[see foot v. 6]. 1879Radcliffe in Encycl. Brit. IX. 10/2 They..are most deadly ‘footers’. 1881Macm. Mag. Nov. 40 A better ‘footer’—more clever at seizing the quarry in his talons.
3. Football.
a. A kick at a football. ? Obs.
b. slang. The game itself.
1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves, etc. (ed. 2) 89 Footer, a stroke at a foot-ball. 1863Boy's Own Vol. July 36 A peculiar fashion of their own [at Harrow] which prompts them to call football ‘footer’. 1896Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 1/3 Who'd have thought of finding the old smug at a footer match? 1925W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xvi, To perform on the footer field with a lot of young louts. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. i. 30, I had to change for F-f-footer.
4. Bowls. (See quot. 1876.)
1863Feltham's Guide to Archery, etc. 57 If a gentleman play a bowl without his foot being upon the footer. 1876Wilkinson in Encycl. Brit. IV. 180/2 The ‘footer’ is the small piece of material—cocoa-nut matting is the best—whereon each player stands in delivering the ball.
5. With a numeral prefixed: A person or thing whose height or length is of that number of feet; as six-footer, twenty-one-footer, etc.
1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxxiii, I..inquired of a second six-footer. 1892Daily News 21 July 3/6 The club also sailed a match for 21-footers on Tuesday.
6. (See quot.)
1927T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk 95 In the manufacture of stockings..two machines are used... One of these machines, termed the ‘legger’, knits the upper and longer part of the stocking, whereas the other machine, termed the ‘footer’, knits the remainder of the stocking.
▪ II. footer, n.2 dial. or slang.|ˈfuːtə(r)|
[? var. of foutre.]
(See quots.). ? Hence ˈfooter v., to trifle, ‘potter about’. ˈfootering ppl. a.
1753A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 36 True Intellig., A Thief, a low Fellow, a Footer. 1825Jennings Somerset Gloss., Footer..a scurvy fellow; a term of contempt. 1847Halliwell, Footer, to idle. 1893Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) xxx. 273 Fussy footering German barons. |