Footstone

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A marking stone placed at the foot of a grave.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A gravestone placed at the foot of a grave; typically smaller than a headstone, and frequently resembling a large cobblestone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The stone at the foot of a grave; -- opposed to headstone.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A stone placed at the foot of a grave, usually small as compared with the headstone.
  • Word Usage
    "But on the footstone are little scraps of paper that mourners have left, weighted with pebbles."