foot up

English

Verb

foot up (third-person singular simple present foots up, present participle footing up, simple past and past participle footed up)

1. (sometimes figurative) To add up; to calculate.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:

     He had knocked over my girl, I had got to fix him for it; and I lay there and gritted my teeth, and footed up the chances. My leg was broke, my gun was gone. Case had still ten shots in his Winchester. It looked a kind of hopeless business.