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单词 by footmeal
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by footmeal
1. = foot n. 6a; a distance or length likened to the length of the human foot; a very short distance. Also in by footmeal: foot by foot. Obsolete.
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance > a very short distance
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OE tr. Wonders of East (Tiber.) §16. 194 Ðær beoð dracan kende, ða beoð on lenge hundteontiges fotmæla [L. pedum] and fiftiges lange.
OE Battle of Maldon (1942) 275 Eadweard se langa..gylpwordum spræc þæt he nolde fleogan fotmæl landes, ofer bæc bugan, þa his betera leg.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1086 Se þe wæs ærur rice cyng & maniges landes hlaford, he næfde þa ealles landes buton seofon fotmæl.
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 1531 (MED) x footemel [L. decempedis] the centeneris take.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xv. 901 The Spaniards not ceassing..to winne aduantage by footmeale [Fr. pour s'auancer & gagner..vn pied, tantost vn autre].
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