Instep
['ɪnstep] or ['ɪn'stɛp]
Definition
(noun.) the part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot.
(noun.) the arch of the foot.
Editor: Rhoda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint.
(n.) That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.
Editor: Thea
Definition
n. the prominent upper part of the human foot near its junction with the leg: in horses the hind-leg from the ham to the pastern joint.
Inputed by Jackson
Examples
- I could distinguish the outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming in. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Inputed by Bobbie