foot linen.

Brit.

/ˈfʊt lʌɪn/, U.S.

/ˈfʊt ˌlaɪn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: foot n., line n.²

Etymology: < foot n. + line n.² In sense 2 after headline n.² 5.

†1. A line measuring a linear foot in length. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > line > [noun] > other

medial line1570

radius1590

lineature1630

foot line1658

rectification1685

axis1734

slant side1824

radiant1842

transverse1867

median1883

bilinear1923

1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour App. 121 With my compasses I take three inches in the foot-line of inch-measure on the other side of the Rule.

1670 W. Marshall Answers upon Several Heads Philos. ii. vii. 116 Parts are sometimes essential and of the definition, and yet by no multiplicity can equalize the whole; as four angles in the definition of a Tetragone, and a foot line in the definition of a foot Cube.

1729 E. Stone Cunn's New Treat. Sector ix. 41 A Foot Line divided into Inches, and each of these into tenth Parts of Inches.

1769 J. Fenn Instr. given in Drawing School I. 91 The Computists chuse rather to divide the square Foot into 12 equal Parts, each of which is 1 Foot long and 1 Inch broad, expressed thus Foot-Inch on account of their two Dimensions. They divide also the Foot-Inch, as the lineal Inch, into 12 equal Parts, each of which is 1 Foot long and 1 Line broad expressed thus Foot-Line.

1898 J. A. McLellan & A. F. Ames Primary Public School Arithm. p. xlvi Let pupils measure a foot line with a 6 in...measure.

1920 C. E. Chadsey Efficiency Arithm.: Intermediate 57 The foot line is now divided into 6 equal parts and each part is called ¹/ ₆ of a foot.

2. Originally and chiefly Typography.

a. A (notional) line marking the bottom of the main body of lower-case letters in a line of text. Also: the fine line or serif at the bottom of a letter. Cf. headline n.² 5a.

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society > communication > printing > printed matter > printed character(s) > [noun] > bottom or footing

footing1676

foot line1676

foot stroke1676

base1827

1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 6 Descendents are those [letters] that stand lower than the Foot-line: such as are g, p, q, y; these reach down to the Bottom-line.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 115/1 The Foot Line, or Footing; is the straight descending part of the Letter which is below the Body of it.

1715 C. Snell Standard Rules Round & Round-text Hands iv. p. iv/2 Draw the Foot-Line marked g.g. and Cross it with a Perpendicular Line (as in Letter n.).

1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. iv. 68 The Small-capital i may be distinguish'd from a Figure of 1, by its top and foot line.

1842 C. W. Isenberg Gram. Amharic Lang. i. iv. 10 Foot lines on the right side are shortened.

1860 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 17 205 On the lower margin..may be traced the footlines of the name of Muhammad.

1904 T. L. De Vinne Mod. Methods Bk. Composition viii. 327 Its type is put upon the standing galley..after it has been relieved of its head- and foot-lines.

1994 N. Netzer Cultural Interplay in 8th Cent. 219 ‘Coupling’ refers to the extension of at least one stroke of the letters a, c,..and z to touch the adjacent letter, usually at either the headline or slightly above the footline.

b. The lowest or bottom line of type; an area at the bottom of a page. Cf. headline n.² 5b.

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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 242 So that the Head-line in the Proof lye in the same range with the Head-line on the Mettle, and the Foot-line even with the Foot-line on the Mettal.

1751 Scots Mag. 13 App. 635/2 The first century, or 100, falls to be placed in the third line from the foot, Friday in the line next below 100, and 0-- in the foot-line.

1817 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 20 Mar. (advt.) The size of the page to be 29 m's wide, and 54 long, including head and foot lines.

1863 St. James's Mag. Aug. 73 Handbills announcing my lecture, with a footline to the effect that ‘Captain Mauleverer Smith..would..appear’.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 45 Footline, the bottom line in a page.

1904 T. Low De Vinne Mod. Methods Bk. Composition vii. 271 Every book of more than one sheet has a signature-mark in the foot-line of each completed section.

1993 M. Vulis Mod. TEX & its Applic iii. 62 The headline is left blank and the footline contains a centered page number.

†a. Angling. The end portion or tippet of a fly-fishing line, made of twisted horsehair or silkworm gut. Cf. foot length n. (b) at foot n. and int. Compounds 3, gut-length n. at gut n. Compounds 2. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > lower part of

foot length1625

foot line1706

bottom line1722

1706 R. Howlett Anglers Sure Guide xvii. 12 At the lower end of every Line, make a small Loop to fasten your Foot-Lines too, and take them off when you will.

1832 Sporting Mag. Apr. 401/1 To your reel-line attach a footline, consisting of two or three lengths of twisted hair.

1870 D. P. Blaine Encyl. Rural Sports (new ed.) viii. iv. 969 Foot-lines are made excellently, of the very best gut.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 17/1 Until comparatively recent times all the foot-lines were of horsehair, and many modern roach-fishers use them.

b. Fishing. The lead-line or lower line of a fishing net or seine. Cf. foot rope n. 2.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other parts of net

foot rope1750

stretcher1823

bridle1828

foot line1845

otter-boardc1870

1845 S. F. Every Art of Netting vi. 50 In Salmon-meshed net, one mesh in three should be gathered to the ropes, the head and foot line always the same.

1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 72 From one of these boats the net is ‘shot’—the other holding the top and foot lines of one end.

1920 S. A. White Foaming Fore Shore xxxi. 199 The ends of the seine net, the cork floats on the headline circling the surface, the leaden sinkers on the footline ringing to the bottom.

1982 T. J. Pitcher & P. J. B. Hart Fisheries Ecol. ii. 64 The advancing net..is held open vertically by floats on the headline and lead weights on the foot-line.

2001 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 46 1023/2 The three nets were connected at the leaded foot line and the buoyed head rope.

4. Nautical. (a) A bolt-rope sewn to the lower edge of a sail. (b) A rope attached to a yard on which a sailor stands when furling or reefing. Cf. foot rope n. 1.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > rope sewn at edge to prevent tearing > parts of

foot ropeOE

head ropec1625

body rope1759

leech-rope1769

foot line1813

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > permanent rigging of a yard > foot-rope

foot ropeOE

horse1626

foot line1813

1813 A. C. Twent Zeemans Woordenboek 44/1 Hanepoot van een zeil, Foot-line.

1852 W. H. Gregory Transport Voy. to Mauritius 9/2 Boy Dick..is silently and stealthily sliding along the foot-lines towards the booby.

1884 C. M. Green Friend of All 583/2 Footlines are lines secured to the yards, and are for the sailors to stand on when reefing, or lying out the yard.

1908 Windsor Mag. 28 604/2 It was the whole maintop yard of the sailing-ship, and its foot-lines gave the necessary support while he lifted Potts still further out of the depths.

1997 Cruising World Jan. 85/3 All edges should be reinforced with overlapping tapes. Leech and foot lines are highly desirable.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	foot line
释义	foot linen. Brit. /ˈfʊt lʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈfʊt ˌlaɪn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: foot n., line n.² Etymology: < foot n. + line n.² In sense 2 after headline n.² 5. †1. A line measuring a linear foot in length. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > line > [noun] > other medial line1570 radius1590 lineature1630 foot line1658 rectification1685 axis1734 slant side1824 radiant1842 transverse1867 median1883 bilinear1923 1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour App. 121 With my compasses I take three inches in the foot-line of inch-measure on the other side of the Rule. 1670 W. Marshall Answers upon Several Heads Philos. ii. vii. 116 Parts are sometimes essential and of the definition, and yet by no multiplicity can equalize the whole; as four angles in the definition of a Tetragone, and a foot line in the definition of a foot Cube. 1729 E. Stone Cunn's New Treat. Sector ix. 41 A Foot Line divided into Inches, and each of these into tenth Parts of Inches. 1769 J. Fenn Instr. given in Drawing School I. 91 The Computists chuse rather to divide the square Foot into 12 equal Parts, each of which is 1 Foot long and 1 Inch broad, expressed thus Foot-Inch on account of their two Dimensions. They divide also the Foot-Inch, as the lineal Inch, into 12 equal Parts, each of which is 1 Foot long and 1 Line broad expressed thus Foot-Line. 1898 J. A. McLellan & A. F. Ames Primary Public School Arithm. p. xlvi Let pupils measure a foot line with a 6 in...measure. 1920 C. E. Chadsey Efficiency Arithm.: Intermediate 57 The foot line is now divided into 6 equal parts and each part is called ¹/ ₆ of a foot. 2. Originally and chiefly Typography. a. A (notional) line marking the bottom of the main body of lower-case letters in a line of text. Also: the fine line or serif at the bottom of a letter. Cf. headline n.² 5a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > printed character(s) > [noun] > bottom or footing footing1676 foot line1676 foot stroke1676 base1827 1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 6 Descendents are those [letters] that stand lower than the Foot-line: such as are g, p, q, y; these reach down to the Bottom-line. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 115/1 The Foot Line, or Footing; is the straight descending part of the Letter which is below the Body of it. 1715 C. Snell Standard Rules Round & Round-text Hands iv. p. iv/2 Draw the Foot-Line marked g.g. and Cross it with a Perpendicular Line (as in Letter n.). 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. iv. 68 The Small-capital i may be distinguish'd from a Figure of 1, by its top and foot line. 1842 C. W. Isenberg Gram. Amharic Lang. i. iv. 10 Foot lines on the right side are shortened. 1860 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 17 205 On the lower margin..may be traced the footlines of the name of Muhammad. 1904 T. L. De Vinne Mod. Methods Bk. Composition viii. 327 Its type is put upon the standing galley..after it has been relieved of its head- and foot-lines. 1994 N. Netzer Cultural Interplay in 8th Cent. 219 ‘Coupling’ refers to the extension of at least one stroke of the letters a, c,..and z to touch the adjacent letter, usually at either the headline or slightly above the footline. b. The lowest or bottom line of type; an area at the bottom of a page. Cf. headline n.² 5b. ΚΠ 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 242 So that the Head-line in the Proof lye in the same range with the Head-line on the Mettle, and the Foot-line even with the Foot-line on the Mettal. 1751 Scots Mag. 13 App. 635/2 The first century, or 100, falls to be placed in the third line from the foot, Friday in the line next below 100, and 0-- in the foot-line. 1817 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 20 Mar. (advt.) The size of the page to be 29 m's wide, and 54 long, including head and foot lines. 1863 St. James's Mag. Aug. 73 Handbills announcing my lecture, with a footline to the effect that ‘Captain Mauleverer Smith..would..appear’. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 45 Footline, the bottom line in a page. 1904 T. Low De Vinne Mod. Methods Bk. Composition vii. 271 Every book of more than one sheet has a signature-mark in the foot-line of each completed section. 1993 M. Vulis Mod. TEX & its Applic iii. 62 The headline is left blank and the footline contains a centered page number. 3. †a. Angling. The end portion or tippet of a fly-fishing line, made of twisted horsehair or silkworm gut. Cf. foot length n. (b) at foot n. and int. Compounds 3, gut-length n. at gut n. Compounds 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > lower part of foot length1625 foot line1706 bottom line1722 1706 R. Howlett Anglers Sure Guide xvii. 12 At the lower end of every Line, make a small Loop to fasten your Foot-Lines too, and take them off when you will. 1832 Sporting Mag. Apr. 401/1 To your reel-line attach a footline, consisting of two or three lengths of twisted hair. 1870 D. P. Blaine Encyl. Rural Sports (new ed.) viii. iv. 969 Foot-lines are made excellently, of the very best gut. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 17/1 Until comparatively recent times all the foot-lines were of horsehair, and many modern roach-fishers use them. b. Fishing. The lead-line or lower line of a fishing net or seine. Cf. foot rope n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other parts of net foot rope1750 stretcher1823 bridle1828 foot line1845 otter-boardc1870 1845 S. F. Every Art of Netting vi. 50 In Salmon-meshed net, one mesh in three should be gathered to the ropes, the head and foot line always the same. 1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 72 From one of these boats the net is ‘shot’—the other holding the top and foot lines of one end. 1920 S. A. White Foaming Fore Shore xxxi. 199 The ends of the seine net, the cork floats on the headline circling the surface, the leaden sinkers on the footline ringing to the bottom. 1982 T. J. Pitcher & P. J. B. Hart Fisheries Ecol. ii. 64 The advancing net..is held open vertically by floats on the headline and lead weights on the foot-line. 2001 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 46 1023/2 The three nets were connected at the leaded foot line and the buoyed head rope. 4. Nautical. (a) A bolt-rope sewn to the lower edge of a sail. (b) A rope attached to a yard on which a sailor stands when furling or reefing. Cf. foot rope n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > rope sewn at edge to prevent tearing > parts of foot ropeOE head ropec1625 body rope1759 leech-rope1769 foot line1813 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > permanent rigging of a yard > foot-rope foot ropeOE horse1626 foot line1813 1813 A. C. Twent Zeemans Woordenboek 44/1 Hanepoot van een zeil, Foot-line. 1852 W. H. Gregory Transport Voy. to Mauritius 9/2 Boy Dick..is silently and stealthily sliding along the foot-lines towards the booby. 1884 C. M. Green Friend of All 583/2 Footlines are lines secured to the yards, and are for the sailors to stand on when reefing, or lying out the yard. 1908 Windsor Mag. 28 604/2 It was the whole maintop yard of the sailing-ship, and its foot-lines gave the necessary support while he lifted Potts still further out of the depths. 1997 Cruising World Jan. 85/3 All edges should be reinforced with overlapping tapes. Leech and foot lines are highly desirable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1658
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