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footholds
n. (plural of foothold English)
Usage examples of "footholds".
Feel with your toes a bit further out and see if there are any footholds there.
They could never have found footholds there even to climb out of reach, and they would have fallen long before they reached the top.
Like dancers in a minuet the two moved forward, groping slowly for the treacherous footholds, and the children shrank back against the cliff.
Eighteen hundred feet below, it might be more, the Tarn threaded lush bottom-lands, tilled fields, goodly orchards, plantations of walnut and Spanish chestnut, and infrequent, tiny villages that clung to precarious footholds between cliffs and water.