Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A marking stone at the foot of a grave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stone placed at the foot of a grave, usually small as compared with the headstone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The stone at the foot of a grave; -- opposed to
headstone .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
gravestone placed at the foot of a grave; typically smaller than aheadstone , and frequently resembling a largecobblestone .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But on the footstone are little scraps of paper that mourners have left, weighted with pebbles.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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But on the footstone are little scraps of paper that mourners have left, weighted with pebbles.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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But on the footstone are little scraps of paper that mourners have left, weighted with pebbles.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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But on the footstone are little scraps of paper that mourners have left, weighted with pebbles.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Some of them are really interesting headstones, and one of a child had a headstone, a footstone, and an odd globe like cement thing in the middle.
Wheelchair goth girl molested in cemetery (with friends) Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Edick was surprised to find the footstone and headstone bearing the initials “M.I.” in excellent condition, further astonished that the distance between the two stones was exactly 56 inches - or roughly Edick's height.
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As we were preparing the paperwork, she asked if I wanted a footstone.
The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006
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I held out for some time for the addition of a footstone at least.
Wessex Tales 2006
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It was filled with other graves that were marked just with a headstone and a footstone at the end of the grave.
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But the grave I was looking for had a big headstone and a footstone and was still quite readable.
2001-10-27 6:23 p.m. nueces 2001
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