barefoot
Use Barefoot in a sentence
adjective, adverb
1.
Also, bare·foot·ed. with the feet bare: a barefoot boy; to walk barefoot.
2.
Carpentry. (of a post or stud) secured to a sill or the like without mortising.
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barefoot or barefooted (ˈbɛəˌfʊt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj, —adv | |
| with the feet uncovered | |
| barefooted or barefooted | |
| —adj, —adv | |
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Barefoot
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Barefoot definition
To go barefoot was a sign of great distress (Isa. 20:2, 3, 4), or of some great calamity having fallen on a person (2 Sam. 15:30).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
The subjects ran at their own pace on a treadmill, first in modern running shoes and then again barefoot.
He was barefoot and barelegged, wearing only floppy khaki shorts and a checked sport shirt, its tail tumbling outside.
He was barefoot, wearing only white canvas shorts and a floppy hat, which he'd decorated with a long plume of feathers.
In this district of small huts and barefoot people and unpaved roads-a world made out of mud-he had been content.
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