1. The name of a tribe of North American Indians.
1810. Tennessee Gaz., 17 Aug., 2/1. The Crows and Blackfeet are almost continually at war.
1842. Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man, 404. The Black-feet are a very powerful and numerous people.
2. Sc. A go-between in a love affair; a matchmaker.
1814. Saxon & Gael, I. 161 (Jam.). Thinkin’ ye might be black-fit, or her secretar.
1822. Scott, Nigel, xxxiv. I could never have expected this intervention of a proxeneta, which the vulgar translate blackfoot, of such eminent dignity.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T., VII. ix. (1849), 344.
