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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
afoot
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
there are moves afoot to do sthBritish English (= there are plans, especially secret ones, to do something)
▪ There are moves afoot to change things.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A quick look round the research and development facility in Versailles revealed a number of interesting software projects afoot.
▪ Apparently, moves are afoot to ban smoking in public places.
▪ From information received, it was thought that some illegal activity was afoot.
▪ Plans are now afoot for an important exhibition of Canaletto in England.
▪ There were plans afoot for a second attack.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But plans are afoot to raise more cash from new programme sales.
▪ Great plans are afoot to ban smoking in public places, resulting in smokers soon becoming complete outcasts in society.
▪ However, there are plans afoot to see if tutoring in primary schools has any effect on performance later on.
▪ Now moves are afoot to mend the situation.
▪ Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
▪ Tammuz was immediately suspicious because he knew the man never broke his routines unless something out of the ordinary was afoot.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Afoot

Afoot \A*foot"\, adv. [Pref. a- + foot.]

  1. On foot.

    We 'll walk afoot a while.
    --Shak.

  2. Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.

    The matter being afoot.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
afoot

c.1200, afote, from a- "on" (see a- (1)) + foot (n.). Figurative sense of "in active operation" is from 1601 ("Julius Caesar").

Wiktionary
afoot

adv. 1 On foot. (gloss: means of locomotion, walking) 2 On foot. (gloss: support of the body, standing) 3 In motion; in action; astir; stirring; in progress.

WordNet
afoot
  1. adj. traveling by foot; "she was afoot when I saw her this morning" [syn: afoot(p)]

  2. currently in progress; "there is mischief afoot"; "plans are afoot"; "preparations for the trial are underway" [syn: afoot(p), underway]

  3. adv. on foot; walking; "they went to the village afoot"; "quail are hunted either afoot or on horseback"

Wikipedia
Afoot

Afoot is the debut six-song EP by the American indie rock band Let's Active, first released in 1983 by I.R.S. Records.

Usage examples of "afoot".

Kero thought, as she guided Hellsbane afoot through the darkness, stumbling now and again over a root or a rock.

She found a patha well-worn path leading from the riverand followed it just out of sight, afoot, leaving Hellsbane tethered in a safe place hidden by the underbrush.

Right now, the action was all afoot, and hand-to-hand, and there was no place for a mounted force to goexcept for the heavy cavalry, who kept trying to plow through the enemy lines without getting trapped behind them.

I would be content to go afoot, for I can go as well afoot as most men on a horse.

Leaving the horses and gear, he led Cuin afoot back the way they had come.

There were bold rumors afoot that Graig had been murdered, and though nothing could be proven, the wardens were taking no more chances.

In front of the Two Rivers men, a man afoot would have to twist and turn to make it through.

Berelain, but then he saw three tall women afoot among the horses, long dark shawls wrapped around their heads and draped over their upper bodies, and he hesitated.

Each apparently was trying to find out whether the others knew what was afoot, from the way they were shaking their heads at each other and shooting glances toward the Blues, the Browns and the Greens.

Pulling his hat low for shade, Mat searched the road for a woman, for anyone, mounted or afoot, and his heart sank.

Few of his followers had horses, and the more that came afoot, the slower they would go.

There were so many packs of two-legs about, afoot and riding the hard-footed four-legs, that they could not say whether any they knew of were the one he sought.

Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.

People afoot pushing out of the tunnel behind him shoved them aside, but he just stared, too.

Sedan chairs borne by trotting bearers became almost as common as people afoot, and, afoot, shopkeepers in coats or dresses heavily embroidered around the chest and shoulders were outnumbered by folk in livery as bright as that of the chair-bearers.