Bayard of ten toes
Bayard of ten toes noun: the feet, as a means of travelling.
Noun
Bayard of ten toes (uncountable)
- The feet, as a means of travelling.
- An honest poor man is the proof of misery, where patience is put to the trial of her strength to endure grief without passion, in starving with concealed necessity, or standing in the adventures of charity : if he be married, want rings in his ears, and woe watereth his eyes : if single, he...circa 1616 : Nicholas Breton, An Honest Poor Man ; reprinted (with modernised spelling) in Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Bart. M.P., Archaica : Containing a Reprint of Scarce Old English Prose Tracts...
- Synonyms:
- shanks' pony
Synonyms of Bayard of ten toes
Origin of Bayard of ten toes
From the fact that humans, unlike horses, have ten toes. (Bayard was a horse famous in old romances.)
Questions about Bayard of ten toes
- What does Bayard of ten toes mean?
- Bayard of ten toes means the feet, as a means of travelling.
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- Bayard of ten toes is a noun.
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