elephant's foot

[Lynne Murphy]

Do other people call a rolling library step stool an 'elephant's foot'?
(i.e., the kind that look sort of like elephants' feet?) or is that a
Britishism?

Thanks,
Lynne

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
Acting Director, MA in Applied Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

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