Definition of Footstocks

1. footstock [n] - See also: footstock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Footstocks

footslogging
footslogs
footsoldier
footsoldiers
footsore
footsoreness
footsorenesses
footstalk
footstalks
footstall
footstalls
footstep
footsteps
footsteps-of-spring
footstock
footstocks (current term)
footstone
footstones
footstool
footstools
footstrike
footstrikes
footsure
footsweep
footsweeps
footswitch
footswitches
footsy
footvolley
footwalk

Literary usage of Footstocks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Milling Machines, Their Design, Construction, and Working: A Handbook by Joseph Gregory Horner (1906)
"... mid Spiral Heads— Various Examples— footstocks. Pillar and Knee Machines with Horizontal Spindles — The reason why so many, proba! ..."

2. Production Milling: A Treatise Dealing with the Methods Employed in by Edward K. Hammond (1921)
"Milling footstocks for Spiral Heads. — Figure 13 shows a Brown & Sharpe No. 3!? heavy-duty type of plain milling machine equipped for facing off the sides ..."

3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"Low, usually villous herbs, with a grass-like aspect, from corms or footstocks, having narrow leaves, and a few comparatively small flowers °n slender ..."

4. A History of the Weald of Kent: With an Outline of the Early History of the by Robert Furley (1871)
""They had ships of which the footstocks or upright standards were made of tlight timber ; the re^t of the body framed of windings and osier covered over ..."

5. Transactions by Manchester Association of Engineers (1902)
"... forming a permanent water guard and a support for the head and footstocks, one of the ways upon which they are clamped being near the base and the other ..."

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