elephant's foot

[Mark A Mandel]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Lynne Murphy wrote:

#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?

We have two in our house. My wife the librarian calls it a library
stool, and hence so do I. She says of 'elephant's foot': "I've never
heard of it, but it sounds awfully accurate. I wish I'd thought of it."

-- Mark Mandel, who Loves a Librarian