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Definition of Foots

1. n. pl. The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.

Definition of Foots

1. Verb. (third-person singular of foot) ¹

2. Noun. The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foots

1. foot [v] - See also: foot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foots

Literary usage of Foots

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"The highest grades of oil show no turbidity or "foots" by this test. The claim is made that sometimes the separation that could be called foots by the above ..."

2. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"COTTON SEED foots In the refining of cotton seed oil by means of caustic soda (p. ... The American cotton seed oil foots are of comparatively light colour, ..."

3. Animal and Vegetable Fixed Oils, Fats, Butters, and Waxes: Their Preparation by Charles Romley Alder Wright (1894)
"Another equal quantity of salt is then added, and the whole boiled up: after standing till next day the cleansed oil is run off from the brine and foots ..."

4. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society by Connecticut Historical Society (1897)
"Caleb Standly <fe to Richard Edwards to Each of them A peice of Land of twenty foots Square at ye Comon Landing place at Hartford for Each of them to buld ..."

5. American Soaps: A Complete Treatise on the Manufacture of Soap, with Special by Henry Gathmann (1893)
"The solvent named being very volatile, it is distilled off again, and a low grade of oil remains, which constitutes the bulk of the " foots. ..."

6. The Soap Maker's Handbook of Materials, Processes and Receipts for Every by Carl Deite, Alwin Engelhardt, F. Wiltner (1912)
"Utilization of foots.—Large lots of foots or sediment accumulated in oil ... foots are worked in various ways; some boil them to grain and add a small ..."

7. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott (1884)
"In the tables as they stand the number of establishments foots up 12063, but the number of separations made to represent distinct products in chemical-works ..."

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