big toe
the first, innermost, largest digit of the foot.
Origin of big toe
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There’s pretty good evidence that, under the right conditions, a stiff plate saves a bit of energy that you’d otherwise waste in bending your big toe.
Press through your big toe to raise your foot up as high as you can for one count.
She combined a long lower pelvis that stabilized a straight-legged stance with an apelike, opposable big toe.
Ardi may have been more chimplike than initially thought — or not | Bruce Bower | February 24, 2021 | Science NewsA bottle of wine or a heavy jar seem to be a big killer for the great toe, or big toe.
‘A pandemic of broken toes’: How life at home has been painful for feet | Elizabeth Chang | January 12, 2021 | Washington PostCheck that there is no pressure on your pinky toe and only a slight amount on your big toe.
I was lucky; but over the next month, the nerve damage to what remained of my big toe was too much.
Reporter Miles O’Brien Lost an Arm but None of His Admirable Spirit or Wit | Kevin Bleyer | March 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Somehow, I hit something or something hit me and split my big toe down the middle,” he wrote.
Under Obama, a Breakdown in the Death Benefits Owed to Veterans | Aaron Glantz | May 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“I bet he could scratch his ear with his big toe all right,” Pant had laughed.
White Fire | Roy J. SnellThe fist and big toe of this monster figure are in the British Museum.
Cleopatra's Needle | James KingTo assure herself that the water was cold she ran down to where the canoes lay and poked one 87 big toe into the edge of the pool.
Wyn's Camping Days | Amy Bell MarloweThe weight is thrown more forcibly upon it, as with the human foot it is upon the inner or big toe.
The Meaning of Evolution | Samuel Christian SchmuckerA star in front of him (on his forehead) and a vermilion flower on the big toe of the left foot.
The Barrel Mystery | William J. (William James) Flynn
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