swiftfoot

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English

Etymology

From swift +‎ foot.

Noun

swiftfoot

  1. A bird, the courser.
    • 1838-1842, William Jardine, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland
      The Courser or Swiftfoot are Little Bustard Plovers, intermediate in many respects, and showing a beautiful gradation of form.

Adjective

swiftfoot (comparative more swiftfoot, superlative most swiftfoot)

  1. (obsolete) nimble; fleet

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “swiftfoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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