subs. (common).—1. The feet.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Dew-beaters; beetle-crushers; understandings; trotters; tootsies: stumps (also the legs); everlasting shoes; hocks; boot-trees; pasterns; ards (old cant: now used as an adjective = ‘hot’); double-breasters; daisy-beaters; kickers; crabs; trampers; hockles; hoofs; pudseys.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Les trottins (popular: trottiner, to go a jog-trot; aller chercher les pardons de Saint-Trottin, to take a walk instead of going to church); les reposoirs (common: properly [in sing.] a resting place or pause; also an altar set up in the streets for a procession); les ripatons (popular); les palerons (thieves’: properly, in sing., a shoulder-blade); les paturons (thieves’: properly pasterns); les harpions (thieves’: also hands. Cotgrave has harpe d’un chien = a dog’s claw or paw; also, Il mania très bien ses harpes, He stirred his fingers very nimbly. [Cf., ‘pickers and stealers’ = fingers]; les mains courantes (popular: literally running hands).
GERMAN SYNONYMS. Tretter (Cf., English ‘trotter’); Trittling, or Trittchen (Hanoverian = shoe, boot, foot, or staircase); Trittlingspflanzer or Trittlingsmelochner (the shoemaker).
ITALIAN SYNONYMS. Calcioso; pisante; bottiero; mazzo.
2. (general).—Lice. For synonyms, see CHATES.
