FOOTMARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does footmark mean? 

• FOOTMARK (noun)
  The noun FOOTMARK has 1 sense:

1. a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface

  Familiarity information: FOOTMARK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOTMARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

footmark; footprint; step

Context example:

the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window

Hypernyms ("footmark" is a kind of...):

mark; print (a visible indication made on a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "footmark"):

footprint evidence (evidence in the form of footprints)

 Context examples 

You'll find their footmarks all over the Hastings sands, in Kent, and in Sussex.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were no footmarks and no other evidence as to his identity.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is a three-foot flower-border outside this window, but no indication of a footmark.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The paper was covered with the tracings of the footmarks of some small animal.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That’s his footmark!” said Belcher.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have their footmarks, we have their description, it’s ten to one that we trace them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two lines of footmarks were clearly marked along the farther end of the path, both leading away from me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can give you his description, and we have a very excellent outline of his footmark.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)