Footholds?

Usage examples of ankles.

Lexie watched as she retrieved the boots, pulled them on and expertly crisscrossed the rawhide laces from ankles to boot-tops and fastened them tightly.

This accounts for the two fractured ankles and the laceration of my legs and lower body.

Then he sat cross-legged and gathered his enormous black silk robe about his thick ankles and square feet.

With his eyes he followed her slender heels and ankles to her calves, then to the hollows behind her knees.

He lay on his stomach and gripped her ankles as she inched over the precipice.

The heavy cuffs and chains that bound her wrists and ankles rattled loudly in the expectant silence.

Tenia crossed her ankles while she studied the map with eager curiosity.

My wrists and ankles were cuffed, and I was chained in a kneeling position, a bar keeping my knees apart.

A short chain went from my ankles to my wrists, which were behind my back, while a leather collar was around my neck and attached to the chain from the post.

Staring at the opposite wall with a distant look in her eyes, Reya leaned against the wall with her arms and ankles crossed.

Dana was leaning against the side wall with one shoulder, her ankles and arms crossed, a bored expression on her face.

She made it to her knees and nearly got away from Carrie when Sara grabbed her by her ankles and dragged her from the door.

As if something had hold of her ankles and was tugging her down, she sank again.

Refusing to argue anymore with my father, she walked on swollen ankles into the sun room.

Her knees were up and apart, and iron rings ran around her ankles and secured them to the surface of the stone.