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dry-foot

UK/ˈdɹʌɪfʊt/

dry-foot adverb: with dry feet; without getting the feet wet.

Adverb

dry-foot (not comparable)

  1. With dry feet; without getting the feet wet.
    • Where he speaketh of his passage over the River of Rheine, towards Germanie, he saith, that deeming it unworthy the honour of the Romane people, his army should passe over in shippes, he caused a bridge to be built, that so it might passe over drie-foot.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) By only the scent of the feet (of hunting, tracking etc.).
    • A hound that runs Counter, and yet draws drifoot well, / One that before the Iudgme[n]t carries poore soules to hel.c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Origin of dry-foot

From dry + foot.

Questions about dry-foot

What does dry-foot mean?
Dry-foot means with dry feet; without getting the feet wet.
What part of speech is dry-foot?
Dry-foot is an adverb.
How do you pronounce dry-foot?
Dry-foot is pronounced /ˈdɹʌɪfʊt/ (UK).

Words near dry-foot in the dictionary

  1. dry-fire
  2. dry-fired
  3. dry-fires
  4. dry-firing
  5. dry-fisted
  6. dry-foot
  7. dry-fried
  8. dry-fries
  9. dry-fry
  10. dry-frying
  11. dry-gulch

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