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单词 to walk afoot
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to walk afoot
P1. to walk on foot (also now rarely to walk afoot): = sense 9a. Also of something liquid: †to flow slowly (obsolete).In quot. 1548 transitive, with journey as object (cf. sense 9d).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > in contrast with 'ride'
to walk on footc1390
to take to one's feet (or foot)1508
to walk afoot1565
walk1631
to hoof it1652
peripateticate1793
foot-slog1897
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > slowly
to walk afoot1747
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vi. l. 1 (MED) Now riden þis folk & walken on fote to seche þat seint in selcouþe londis.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 18548 Þa iewes sagh þis ilk man..a-pon þe see wiþ-outen wete dry to walke a-pon his fete [Vesp., Gött. Gangand als apon a strete].]
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xii. 12–16 Where as before he was wunte to walke his iourneyes on foote.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. iii. f. 114v The said..bishop Chadde was wonte alwaies to..doo the worke of the ghospell more walking a fote wher he went, than on horsebacke.
1621 Bp. H. King Serm. 37 But Kings haue walkt afoote whilest the Pope hath rode.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 62 We were forced to walke on foote very wett, and discompos'd.
1681 London Gaz. mdclxi/3 His Royal Highness walked a Foot.
1747 Fool (1748) II. 252 When it [sc. the blood] walks a Foot, in an even, regular Peace, every Faculty coincides.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. vi. 356 How comes it..that such a great Gentleman walks about the Country afoot? View more context for this quotation
1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. II. iii. 221 The king walked on foot among the infantry.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 561 The prisoner..walked on foot, bareheaded, up the whole length of that stately street which..leads from Holyrood House to the Castle.
1875 Times 28 Sept. 7/2 The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on foot.
1943 Slavonic & East European Rev. 2 143 Taylor then tells of his journey, in company with his brother, from Gravesend to Rotterdam and hence to Leipzig and Chemnitz, whence they had to walk on foot through the Bohemian forest.
1999 Zimbabwe Standard (Nexis) 8 Aug. He had no car and would walk on foot.
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