foot level

American  

noun

1. a foot rule, hinged in the middle, having a spirit level in one section and a graduated arc from which the angle made by the two sections can be read.

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Etymology

Origin of foot level

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

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foot level

And avalanches and mudflows cascaded down to the 6,400 foot level.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 7, 2012

There were windows just above the sidewalk at foot level, and more at head level, too.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

In the mountains, the high mountains above the seven or eight thousand foot level, grows an affair called the snow-plant.

From The Mountains by White, Stewart Edward

At about the nine thousand foot level and in the summer there will be hosts of rosy-winged dodecatheon, called shooting-stars, outlining the crystal tunnels in the sod.

From The Land of Little Rain by Austin, Mary Hunter

We descended to the seven hundred foot level, where the day before a pile of ore had been blasted down.

From History of California by Bandini, Helen Elliott