Emily Dickinson Lexicon

foot (feet), n. [OE fot, fet.] (webplay: boat, earth, end, fellow, inch, law, march, measure, mountains, music, pace, shod, soldier, stand, step, verse, walk).

1. Path; journey; course of walking; direction of movement; [metonymy] soul; body; upright self; [phrase “My foot is on the Tide!”] I am walking on water by faith (see Matthew 14:28-31).
2. Shoe; boot; [fig.] dancer; dance of blessed spirits; [metonymy] meter; metrical unit; numerical measurement in verse; combination of stressed and unstressed syllables in the line of a lyric.
3. Base; bottom; lower part.
4. Footing; foundation; condition; state of being.
5. Lower extremity of a leg; part of the leg that stands or walks on the ground.
6. Step; pace.
7. Farther end of a grave; opposite the headstone.
8. Root; bottom growth; part anchoring a plant in the soil.
9. Transport; means of walking.
10. Organ of locomotion; attachment belonging to certain invertebrate animals; that which resembles an animal's foot in shape or function.