foot up

verb

foot up

verb

1

Figuratively, Sometimes To add up; to calculate.

He had knocked over my girl, I had got to fix him for it; and I lay there and gritted my teeth, and footed up the chances. My leg was broke, my gun was gone. Case had still ten shots in his Winchester. It looked a kind of hopeless business.1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:

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