Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: afoot
IPA transcription: [əf'ʊt]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: afoot
    Meaning: on foot; walking; "they went to the village afoot"; "quail are hunted either afoot or on horseback"
Usage examples
  • 'What's afoot now?' he questioned savagely.
  • They left the driver to take the horses to the inn and approached the building afoot.
  • The night passed, and the next day, after dinner, Redruth and I were afoot again and on the road.
  • So there was an upright man, possibly a very Hugo in character, who was thwarting and defying the evildoer in his nefarious career, and there was a dastardly plot afoot to break his neck!
  • Shortly after entering among the trees, one of the latter, who had gone afoot in the advance, was seen standing by the edge of the thicket, as if waiting to announce some recently discovered fact.
  • So they mounted, marvelling at the greatness of the dogs, and rode forth, attended by the four Wazirs and a host of apes like swarming locusts, some riding on dogs and others afoot till they came to the sea-shore.