What is "footings"

Usage examples of "footings".

There, Rienadre, Denalle, and Nylan struggled to remove the silty and clay-filled soil, at least enough to provide footings for the crude retaining wall that would, Nylan hoped, form the millpond.

He then sketched the footings on both sides of the river, well back from the verge.

It worked out by the end of that day that the Terrans would cut timber for the footings on their side of the river, the Hrrubans on theirs.

The logs for the footings were lifted into position by Hrrubans wearing protective hide gloves.

After an arbitrary pause, the Hrrubans filled in the dirt around the footings and turned to the first of the span logs.

There's a hell of a lot of mass coming down out there, and the footings don't have to actually turn to impart that kind of motion.

And, finally, we had on-site supervisors who were responsible for spot-checking the footings after they were in.