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barefoot

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bare⋅foot

  [bair-foot]
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–adjective, adverb
1. Also, barefooted. 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.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME barfot, OE bærfōt. See bare 1 , foot
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bare·foot   (bâr'fŏŏt')   
adv.   & adj.
With nothing on the feet: walking barefoot in the grass; a barefoot boy.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Barefoot

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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