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单词 underfooting
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underfootingn.

Etymology: < underfoot adv.: see -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: underˈfooting.
1. Irish English. In turf-cutting: (see quots.).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > slicing off turf
beatinga1616
velling1674
underfooting1942
1942 E. E. Evans Irish Heritage xv. 136 In breast-work the digger stands facing the turf bank, and thrusts his spade horizontally, whereas in underfooting he stands on the bank and cuts vertically.
1957 E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways xiv. 189 There are two methods of cutting, vertically or ‘underfooting’ and horizontally or ‘breasting’, and they tend to be used respectively on thin upland and deep lowland bogs.
1979 Country Life 27 Sept. 963/3 In some areas the [peat] turf is cut horizontally, known as breasting, but most turf is cut vertically, which is termed ‘underfooting’.
2. The ground under foot, esp. with regard to its condition. Cf. footing n. 6.
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the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] > condition for movement
rideability1793
tread1820
going1823
underfooting1948
runnability1982
1948 Sun (Baltimore) 29 Apr. 19/1 Shivaree..was timed in 1.12 3–5, which was excellent in the sloppy underfooting.
1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. x. 309 Some three centuries before wheeled vehicles became common, the street lost its natural underfooting.
1976 M. Gordon & G. Gordon Ordeal (1977) xviii. 125 He slowed only when he encountered rough underfooting.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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