For Foot we have terms and definitions in 10 topics. The topics are Boating, Cigar, Classic Boats, Drama, Glass, Nautical, Paper, Poetry, Rugs and Sailing.

Foot (Boating)

The lowest edge of a sail.

Foot (Cigar)

The open end of the cigar that you light. With figurado (torpedo-shaped) cigars where both ends are tapered, examine the cigar carefully to find the small aperture which indicates the foot.

Foot (Classic Boats)

1. The lower edge of any sail.
2. The bottom of a mast.
3. A measurement of 12 inches.

Foot (Drama)

A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. For example, an iamb or iambic foot is represented by ?', that is, an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. Frost's line "Whose woods these are I think I know" contains four iambs, and is thus an iambic foot.

Foot (Glass)

The base of a glass. Until the invention of the gadget, was held by the pontil-rod while the glass was being finished. After c 1800 the pontil-mark was usually ground out, so the foot could be made flat. See decanters & drinking-glasses

Foot (Nautical)

The bottom of a sail.

Foot (Paper)

The bottom of a page of printed information.

Foot (Poetry)

A unit of rhythm or meter; the division in verse of a group of syllables, one of which is long or accented. For example, the line, "The boy | stood on | the burn | ing deck," has four iambic metrical feet. The fundamental components of the foot are the arsis and the thesis. The most common poetic feet used in English verse are the iamb, anapest, trochee, dactyl, and spondee, while in classical verse there are twenty-eight different feet.
The other metrical feet are the amphibrach, antibacchius, antispast, bacchius, choriamb, cretic, diiamb, dispondee, dochmius, molossus, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, and tribrach, plus two variations of the ionic, four variations of the epitrite, and four variations of the paeon. The structure of a poetic foot does not necessarily correspond to word divisions, but is determined in context by the feet which surround it.
Sidelight: A line of verse may or may not be written in identical feet; variations within a line are common. Consequently, the classification of verse as iambic, anapestic, trochaic, etc., is determined by the foot which is dominant in the line.
Sidelight: To help his young son remember them, Coleridge wrote the poem, "Metrical Feet."
(See Dipody)
(See also Scan, Scansion)

Foot (Rugs)

A unit of length. One foot is equal to 12 inches or approximately 30 centimeters. Foot and inch are the measurements used in the United States and England for measuring the length and width of rugs.

Foot (Sailing)

The bottom edge of a sail.

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