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If the foot is a fore-foot, and the point desired to be operated on is to the outside, the pastern should be firmly lashed to the forearm by means of a thin, short cord, or a leather strap and buckle.

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  1. noun The lower extremity of the vertebrate leg that is in direct contact with the ground in standing or walking.
  2. noun A structure used for locomotion or attachment in an invertebrate animal, such as the muscular organ extending from the ventral side of a mollusk.
  3. noun Something suggestive of a foot in position or function, especially:
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  • The next place for a foot was a projecting knob, which I made with no trouble, but then my foot slipped off and I was back at the bottom. —  The Black Mountain
  • Today, Martin has undergone two surgeries and his foot is at a 90-degree angle for the first time since he was seven years old. —  Nicholas D. Kristof
  • But somebody stopped nature and somebody decided a foot was a lucky thing to carry around, not the ears or the whiskers or the heart or the belly, but the foot. —  Home-Schooled By a Cackling Jackal
  • One of the biggest ways to shoot yourself in the foot is at the very, very beginning, when you select your Content Management System (CMS). —  Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
  • "Balancing a feather on your foot was the hardest, but it was a lot of fun too." —  The Examiner Home RSS
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  1. Middle English fot, from Old English fōt; see ped- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English foot, fot, plural feet, fet, from Anglo-Saxon fōt, plural fēt = Old Saxon OFries. fōt = Dutch voet = Middle Low German vōt, Low German foot, fot, fōt = Old High German fuoz, Middle High German vuoz, German fuss = Icelandic fōtr = Danish fod = Swedish fot = Gothic (Moesogothic) fōtus, foot; Teutonic stem fōt-, in ablaut relation with a stem fat-, fet-, appearing in Anglo-Saxon fæt (in comp.), a step, going, Icelandic fet (= Danish fjed = Swedish fjät), a pace, step, foot (of length), fit, the webbed foot of a water-bird, Scots fit, foot (see fit); Anglo-Saxon feter, English fetter, etc.; Middle English fetlak, English fetlock, etc.; Anglo-Saxon fetian, English fet, bring, Icelandic feta, find one's way, etc. (see fet); = Latin pes (pĕd-) (later Italian piede = Spanish pié = Portuguese Provencal pe = French pied), foot, stem ped- appearing also in peda, a footstep, pedica, a fetter, etc., oppidum, town, etc., related to stem pod- in tripudium, a dance, etc., = Greek πούς (ποδ-), Æolic πώς, foot, related to stem πεδ- in πέδη, a fetter, πέδον, the ground, πέδιλον, a sandal, πέζα, instep, bottom, end, dial. foot, πεζός, on foot, etc.; = Lithuanian padas = Lettish pehda = Zend pādha (Persian pāi, pā, Hindustani pā), foot, = Sanskrit pad, foot, pada, step, foot, from Sanskrit √ pad, go, step, tread. Hence ult., from the Anglo-Saxon, fetter, fetlock, fet, fet, fit, etc.; from the L., pedal, pedestal, pedestrian, pedicel, pediment, etc., bipped, quadruped, centiped, etc., expede, impede, expedite, etc., peon, pawn, etc.; from the Greek, podagra, podocarp, etc., podium, peu, etc., dipody, tripod, etc., octopus, polypus, polyp, etc.
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