a. Obs. exc. poet. [f. FOUR a. + FOOT sb.] = FOUR-FOOTED.

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c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., II. iv. § 3. Ælces cynnes feowerfetes feos an.

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c. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., IV. xxx. [xxix.] (1891), 374. [He] nales ðæt aan feðerfotra neata … ðone teoðan dæl for Gode to ælmessum ðearfum sealde.]

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c. 1300.  Cursor M., 19848 (Edin.). Alle four fote bestis saȝ he bune.

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1732.  Swift, Beasts’ Confess., 200.

        I would accuse him to his Face,
For libelling the Four-foot Race.

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1864.  Swinburne, Atalanta, 149. Yea, lest they [the gods] smite us with some four-foot plague.

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