Associations to the word «Footwall»

Wiktionary

FOOTWALL, noun. (geology) The section of rock that extends below a diagonal fault line (the corresponding upper section being the hanging wall).
FOOTWALL, noun. (mining) The under wall of an enclosed vein.

Dictionary definition

FOOTWALL, noun. The lower wall of an inclined fault.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin