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1. † a. Having two feet, two-footed (obs.). b. Performed or executed with both feet (rare).
1620. Rowlands, Night Raven, 3. I haunt not barnes, for either Mouse or Rat, As doth the searching two-foote flying Cat.
1902. Munsey’s Mag., XXVI. 477/1. The two foot spin is one of the most sensational movements in figure skating.
2. Measuring two feet; two feet long, wide, or thick. Two-foot rule, a measuring rule two feet long. So two-foot-wide a.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. III. 13. A two-foot Trout.
1679. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., vii. 129. If there be odd Inches, they measure them with the Two-foot Rule.
1855. J. Phillips, Man. Geol., 193. Two-foot coal.
1891. C. James, Rom. Rigmarole, 127. Squeezed in between the two-foot-wide pavement and the centre of the roadway … was a row of canvas booths.
1903. Heart of Heretic, xx. 152. We measure Him [God] by our little two-foot rule.
