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swiftfoot

noun

Etymology

From swift + foot.

  1. inherited from *pṓds✻
  2. inherited from *fōts✻
  3. inherited from *fōt✻
  4. inherited from fōt
  5. inherited from fot
  6. compounded as swiftfoot — “swift + foot”

Definitions

  1. A bird, the courser.

    • 1838-1842, William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland The Courser or Swiftfoot […] are Little Bustard Plovers, intermediate in many respects, and showing a beautiful gradation of form.

  2. nimble

    nimble; fleet

    • The hauke, the hound, the hinde, the swift-foot hare

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA