web foot

noun

, Furniture.

1. a pad foot having the appearance of toes joined by a web.

Example Sentences

Web′-foot, a foot the toes of which are united with a web or membrane.—adjs.

From Project Gutenberg

You were going to tell me something about the right hand of the man with the web foot.

From Project Gutenberg

It was well past noon when at last they arrived at a scooped out area of land between the two mountains, connecting them half way to their summit, like the web foot of a duck. 62Here, hungry and tired, they paused for lunch, and somehow, two sandwiches and a boiled egg apiece didn’t seem to go very far.

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There! one has reared herself half way out of the water; another stretches forth a delicate web foot to scratch her ear, as handily as a dog on dry land; and now the drake reflects his purple neck to preen his ruffled wing, and now--bad luck to you, Peacock, why did you snort and stamp?--they are off like a bullet, and out of sight in an instant.

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"Of course," said the Platypus, yawning again, without so much as putting its web foot in front of its bill, which Dot thought very rude, or else very ancient manners.

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