English

footbar

From foot + bar.

A compound of foot + bar

Proto-Indo-European *pṓds ‘foot’

Proto-Germanic *fōts ‘foot’

Proto-West Germanic *fōt

Old English fōt ‘foot’

Middle English fot ‘foot’

English foot

Vulgar Latin *barra

Old French barre ‘beam, bar, gate, barrier’

Middle English barre

English bar

Today it means

noun A bar for supporting a person's foot, as in furniture or exercise machines.

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