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footmanship|ˈfʊtmənʃɪp|
[f. prec. + -ship.]
1. The action of, or skill in, running or walking. to lay on or make footmanship: to run quickly. Now rare or Obs.
1562J. Shute Cambine's Turk. Wars 18 Everye man by fotemanshyppe soughte to save one and to get into the citie. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. i. (1593) 17 Twaine of them do straine themselves and lay on footemanship. 1580Blundevil Horsemanship (1609) 4 b, Their sure footmanship..their lofty pase. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 9 The Hart pursued of the dogges, maketh foote-manship to the soile. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. 328 The footman-ship for which the Irish 40 years ago were very famous, is now almost quite lost among them. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. II. 414 The People in this County [Stafford] have been more particularly famous than any other for good Footmanship. 1896Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 30 Jan. 10/6 The most important test is utterly ignored. This..Footmanship, not erudition, is the thing.
fig.1614J. Cooke City Wit in Dodsley O.P. VII. 85 I'll try the nimble footmanship of your tongue.
2. The occupation or office of a footman (sense 4).
1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 632 The fundamental principles of footmanship. |