Definitions for instep

instep in·step

Spelling: [in-step]
IPA: /ˈɪnˌstɛp/

Instep is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in instep (einpst).

Definitions for instep

noun

  1. the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
  2. the part of a shoe, stocking, etc., covering this surface.
  3. the front of the hind leg of a horse, cow, etc., between the hock and the pastern joint; cannon.

Origin of instep

1520-30; apparently in-1 + step

Examples for instep

He seized it, heel in one hand, instep in the other, and gyrated it.

The year, however, did not pass before the boy split his instep with an ax.

The rest and his own doctoring had very nearly cured the instep.

His boots, he noted, were not adapted to walking as they pinched in the toes and instep.

No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the beech.

How to make that wooden sole bend a little at the instep was the question.

Her slippers were of the same colour, with black bows at the instep.

All at once he noticed a rent in his trousers, between the knee and the instep.

He rose with the blow; all his energy, from wrist to instep, was in that lifting drive.

Their heels are in front, the instep and toes are turned backwards.

Word Value for instep
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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