Foothold
['fʊthəʊld] or ['fʊt'hold]
Definition
(noun.) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing.
Checker: Monroe--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.
Editor: Sallust
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Footing, place to stand on.
Inputed by DeWitt
Examples
- No time was to be lost in securing this foothold. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Spain was assailing Granada, the last foothold of the Moslems in western Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The second group lived in an age when the great middle class was struggling for a foothold in a new country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The British were not slow to seize the foothold this insurrection gave them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A few small footholds presented themselves, and there was some indication of a ledge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Typed by Geraldine