pad foot


noun
  1. Furniture. any of various kinds of feet to a cabriole leg, as club, slipper, trifid, or web, having the form of a flattened extension of its lines.

Origin of pad foot

1
First recorded in 1730–40

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How to use pad foot in a sentence

  • The carving was put on the knees and the legs ended in claw and ball and pad feet.

  • Depressions in the carbon-dioxide snow where the hundred-foot pad-feet of ships' landing-legs had pressed down.

    Space Viking | Henry Beam Piper