Foot wall
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The original keep was there with its huge buttressed Saxon towers whose mighty fifteen foot walls were pierced with stairways and vaulted chambers, lighted by embrasures which, mere slits in the outer periphery of the walls, spread to larger dimensions within, some even attaining the area of small triangular chambers.
He is at mine, Maureen shouted over the six foot wall , I couldn't see her I am not that tall, I started to plan supper, a trip for fish and chips, Perhaps a bottle of cherryade to wet our lips.
The ex-Grenadier Guardsman, from Stafford, informed a War Pensions and Armed Forces compensation panel in Birmingham: "I had to jump off a six foot wall as part of the course involving water and other obstacles at Purbright, Surrey.
ELEVEN labourers were killed and at least 14 injured after a 25- foot wall, which was under construction, collapsed at a stone crushing site in Dhulera village under Nangal Chaudhary police station in Mahendragarh district.
I did not know the green strength of the clay--its capacity to stand at the bottom of a 12 foot wall. And I did not know the fired strength of the clay at the bottom of a 21 foot wall.
The purchaser plans to reopen the 288 foot wall of windows which has been blocked for over two decades and convert the properly to a production studio.
The other significant feature is the foot wall gold zone where low sulphide precious metal intersections associated with chalcopyrite and minor galena occur in the immediate foot wall of the near solid sulphide mineralisation.
David Jones, prosecuting, said on the morning of October 5 last year 44-year-old Saranjit Nandhra got into the Porche parked outside his home inn Meadow Road, Edgbaston, which has a seven foot wall at the front of the property with electronic gates.
THEY WOULD CONGREGATE LIKE A PACK OF HYNEAS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY RIDE INTO THE DEEP END, SOME ONLY MAKING IT THREE OR FOUR FEET UP A TEN FOOT WALL. IT WAS A LITTLE IRRITATING, BUT ALSO PRETTY ENTERTAINING.
The side that slips upward, called the "hanging wall," typically suffers more damage than the downward-slipping "foot wall."
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