| 释义 |
foot-mark, footmark|ˈfʊtmɑːk|
1. A mark on the foot; (in quot.) an ownership mark cut on the foot of a swan.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 123 Our footemarke is to cutte or slit them on both the in-webbes.
2. A mark made by the foot; a foot-print.
1826Syd. Smith Counsel for Prisoners Wks. 1859 II. 111/2 A foot-mark, a word, a sound..all gave birth to the most ingenious inferences. 1855Dawson Acadian Geol. ix. 187 When examining the red sandstones..I found in one of the beds a few footmarks of an unknown animal.
fig.1858R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Rem. I. 31 Possessed of data wherewith to discover the genuine footmark, we may now track the course of our author.
Hence foot-mark v. trans. † (a) To mark on the foot. † (b) To impress with the mark of a foot.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 123 The swanners gette up the younge swannes about Midsummer, and footemarke them for the owners. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 208 Where..First foot-mark'd the ground by me, All is still. |