Definition of "footed" in English

verb

1. simple past and past participle of foot

adjective

1. Having a foot or feet; (in combination) having a specified form or type of foot or number of feet.

2. (prosody, usually in combination) Consisting of, or having been put into, metrical feet (of a specified character or number).

   • 2003, Tony K. Stewart, Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore, The Lover of God, Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, p. 12, As for the strict forms in which the original poems were written, it seemed an empty exercise to force English into those particular strictures, which in Bengali literary tradition are richly associative but which in English are not. The familiar fourteen-syllable payār couplet with its aa bb cc rhymes and the more intricate three-footed tripadi of variable length and rhyme were the first casualties of the process.
   • each six-footed line of the verse

3. (of a vessel) Having a foot