Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sidewalk.
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- noun A
pedestrian walkway .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was necessary to step upward to the footwalk to reach school. '
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It was necessary to step upward to the footwalk to reach school.
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On top of every gate was a footwalk with a handrail, so attendants could go back and forth from one side of the lock to the other whenever the gates were closed.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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On top of every gate was a footwalk with a handrail, so attendants could go back and forth from one side of the lock to the other whenever the gates were closed.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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He pointed at a stationary truck, parked half on the footwalk, some two hundred yards ahead.
The Japanese Corpse Van de Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- 1977
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Here and there a flicker of gas lighted an uncertain space of muddy footwalk and gutter; the long rows of houses, except an occasional lager-bier shop, were closed; now and then she met a band of mill-hands skulking to or from their work.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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The streets of Ottery are steep and sinuous, and both roadway and footwalk are paved with pebbles and cobble-stones.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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He led me along a precarious footwalk that ran in front of the c aves and to the far end of it.
Carson of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1939
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A youth in a grey suit and a pair of orange-coloured buttoned boots loitered backwards and forwards over about six yards of footwalk; now he smoked a cigarette, now he leaned against a tree and idly surveyed the passers by.
The Summons 1906
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Cinquecento, in front of the railway station, he climbed into one of the small open cabs ranged alongside the footwalk, and placed the valise near him after giving the driver this address:
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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