a. † a. THREE-FOOTED. Obs. b. Measuring three feet in length, breadth, or other dimension.

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1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., II. i. 52. The wisest Aunt … Sometime for three-foot stoole, mistaketh me.

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1675.  Hobbes, Odyss., 155. A caldron, or a three-foot pot of brass.

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1870.  Mrs. Riddell, A. Friars, iv. The usual three-foot passage leading from the front door to the kitchen.

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1880.  A. A. Common, in Mem. Roy. Astron. Soc., XLVI. 173. Particulars of the Mounting of a Three-Foot Reflector.

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