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four-footed

[ fawr-foot-id, fohr- ]

/ ˈfɔrˈfʊt ɪd, ˈfoʊr- /

adjective

having four feet: He considers his dog to be his four-footed friend.

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Origin of four-footed

1125–75; Middle English four foted

Words nearby four-footed

four flush, fourflusher, fourfold, fourfold block, fourfold purchase, four-footed, four-four time, four freedoms, fourgon, four-handed, Four-H Club

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Example sentences from the Web for four-footed

Men have their season on the mesa as much as plants and four-footed things, and one is not like to meet them out of their time.
The Land of Little Rain|Mary Austin
The spiders had not done it, but the larger kinds of four-footed wild animals.
The Red Mustang|William O. Stoddard
Some four-footed creaturesAssembled one day, At the game of the blind manTogether to play.
Literary Fables of Yriarte|Tomas de Iriarte
The interest of the spectators, however, centered on the four-footed "racers."
When Life Was Young|C. A. Stephens

He attempted to fight off his four-footed assailant, but he was no match for the angry dog.
The Boy Allies with the Cossacks|Clair W. Hayes

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