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Foot-Pound

Foot-Pound, the name given in mechanics to the force required to raise 1 lb. through 1 foot, the unit of work.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Fools, Feast of * Foote, Samuel
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