foot up

English

(sometimes figuratively) 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.

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