1. A deformed or distorted foot. A name for various distortions, generally congenital, which give the foot a more or less stunted, lumpy appearance.
1538. Leland, Itin., IV. 124. Hales with the clubbe Foot hath gotten an Interest in this Colledge.
1611. Cotgr., Pied-bot, a club-foot, or stub-foot.
1800. T. Sheldrake, in Med. Jrnl., IV. 493. Those distortions of the feet, which are commonly called Club-feet.
1839. Todd, Cycl. Anat., s.v. Foot, There are three principal forms of distortion to which the foot is congenitally subject: 1. When the foot is turned inwards, which has been termed varus. 2. When it is turned outwards, called valgus. 3. When the foot is permanently extended, and the patient can only put the toes to the ground, termed pes equinus. Almost all the varieties of club-foot may be referred to one of these species.
1883. J. C. Jeaffreson, Real Ld. Byron, iii. 28. The lameness of such an ordinary club-foot as disfigured Sir Walter Scott.
2. A foot of a lumpy, club-like appearance.
1683. Lond. Gaz., No. 1805/4. Also Stolen a brown Gelding, having one Club-Foot behind.
1712. W. Rogers, Voy., 262. These Creatures [land turtles] have Club Feet as big as one’s Fist, shaped much like those of an Elephant.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven. (1874), I. vii. 76. It is a club-foot, and looks too blunt for the limb.
3. attrib. = next.
1583. T. Watson, Poems (Arb.), 103. He gybes the Clubfoote Smith, Who threatens him.
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal, Sat. X. 191. Nero did not take A Noble Club-foot-stripling.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 139. Commonly called Club-foot Hales.
