Synonyms:
footprint, footmark, step
Meaning: a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"
Usage examples
There was the footprint of the hound beside him as he lay.
Wherein Freckles Wins Honor and Finds a Footprint on the Trail
The stark-heart found footprint of foe who so far had gone in his hidden craft by the creature's head.
With this dire threat, Freckles knelt, as at a wayside spring, and deliberately laid his lips on the footprint.
They show a bloody footprint in a bed-chamber of Oakwell Hall, and tell a story connected with it, and with the lane by which the house is approached.
Having said this, he asked me for the paper pattern of the footprint which he had given me to take care of, and applied it to a very clear footmark behind the thicket.
He would not have ventured a caress on her hat any more than on her person, but this was different. Surely a footprint on a trail might belong to anyone who found and wanted it.