"dry-foot" meaning in English

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          "text": "Where he speaketh of his passage over the River of Rheine, towards Germanie, he saith, that deeming it unworthy the honour of the Romane people, his army should passe over in shippes, he caused a bridge to be built, that so it might passe over drie-foot.",
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        "With dry feet; without getting the feet wet."
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          "feet",
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          "roman": "ne zamočív nóg",
          "sense": "with dry feet",
          "word": "не замочи́в но́г"
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          "roman": "pósuxu",
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          "word": "по́суху"
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          "text": "A hound that runs Counter, and yet draws drifoot well, / One that before the Iudgme[n]t carries poore soules to hel.",
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        "By only the scent of the feet (of hunting, tracking etc.)."
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        "(obsolete) By only the scent of the feet (of hunting, tracking etc.)."
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          "roman": "po zápaxu sledóv",
          "sense": "by scent of the feet",
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  "word": "dry-foot"
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      "roman": "ne zamočív nóg",
      "sense": "with dry feet",
      "word": "не замочи́в но́г"
    },
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      "roman": "pósuxu",
      "sense": "with dry feet",
      "word": "по́суху"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "po zápaxu sledóv",
      "sense": "by scent of the feet",
      "word": "по за́паху следо́в"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dry-foot"
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