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footwalls

footwalls is the plural of footwall.

Meaning of footwall

Noun

footwall (plural footwalls)

  1. The section of rock that extends below a diagonal fault line (the corresponding upper section being the hanging wall).
  2. The under wall of an enclosed vein.

Questions about footwalls

What is footwalls the plural of?
Footwalls is the plural of footwall.

Words near footwalls in the dictionary

  1. footsy
  2. footvolley
  3. footwalk
  4. footwalks
  5. footwall
  6. footwalls
  7. footward
  8. footwarmer
  9. footwarmers
  10. footwashing
  11. footway

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footwalls (page history and authors); footwall (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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