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footer

footer

26 5.8
A word part that shows length or height in feet, for example six-footer
  • noun
  • /ˈfuːtər/
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  • I quoted you for a 20 when it's a 40-footer.
  • a six-footer
  • a 7-footer
  • a 15-footer

Examples

  • She seemed pretty damn interested in the 40-footer this afternoon.

    Cutter's Way (1981)

  • If I wanted to get a boat when I got there, small boat, maybe 15-footer... - ...how much would it cost?

    Papillon (1973)

  • Joe takes his time and gives Harry too long to study his four-footer.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • We had a small Catalina, a 60 and a half footer.

    The Hurricane Heist (2018)

  • The new boats are going to be an even bigger handful than the 40-footers, for sure.

    Blog text (27)

  • There's a 30-footer in India.

    Lake Placid (1999)

  • I should have sprung for the 40-footer.

    Overboard (2018)

  • It's only a seventeen-footer, but there are a couple of bunks and, thankfully, a small engine.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Another 40-footer.

    Liar's Moon (1982)

  • The new marina can accommodate boats ranging from small skiffs to large sixty-footers.

Surface Forms

footer singular
footers plural

Morphology

footer = foot (transparent) = foot + er

This is a regular noun formation from 'foot' meaning a unit of length plus '-er', so the meaning is easy to infer.

Etymology

Footer in combinations comes from the unit foot, a measure of length equal to 12 inches, and is used in phrases like 'six-footer' or '25-footer' to show size in 'feet'. So a footer there tells how many feet tall or long something is.