单词 | to fix the foot or footing |
释义 | > as lemmasto fix the foot or footing ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)] > take up position > firmly or with sure foothold roota1382 foota1425 to fix the foot or footing1582 haft1725 to dig in1851 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 61 He stutted, apaled: And fixt his footing. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. ix. 4 Fix thy foot . View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 98 The more weary [the Oxe] is, the more strong doth he fixe his footings. 1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 52 The Tartars could never fix a foot in China. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 3 I'll plant my Colours down In the mid-breach, and by 'em fix my foot. < as lemmas |
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