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footing

footing (plural footings)

1. A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.

   In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next. Holder.

2. A standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.

   As soon as he had obtained a footing at court, the charms of his manner . . . made him a favorite. Thomas Babington Macaulay.

3. A relative condition; state.

   Lived on a footing of equality with nobles. Thomas Babington Macaulay.

4. A tread; step; especially, measured tread.

   Hark, I hear the footing of a man. Shakespeare

5. (now rare) A footprint or footprints; tracks, someones trail.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     The Monster swift as word, that from her went, / Went forth in hast, and did her footing trace [...].

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.38:

     A man must doe as some wilde beasts, which at the entrance of their caves, will have no manner of footing seene.

6. stability or balance when standing on ones feet
   • 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, BBC Sport:

     Terry lost his footing to allow Van Persie to race clear for Arsenals fourth after 85 minutes before the Netherlands striker completed a second treble against Chelsea by hammering his third past Petr Cech deep into stoppage time.

7. The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
8. The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
9. A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
10. The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. Simmonds.
11. (architecture, engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
12. (accounting) Double checking the numbers vertically.

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