great toe
Noun
Meaning
the first largest innermost toe
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Hypernyms
Examples
About two o'clock in the morning he is awakened by a severe pain in the great toe; more rarely in the heel, ankle or instep.
Eighth tale (VII, 8) A husband grows jealous of his wife, and discovers that she has warning of her lover's approach by a piece of pack-thread, which she ties to her great toe at nights.
Gout may be diagnosed and treated without further investigations in someone with hyperuricemia and the classic acute arthritis of the base of the great toe (known as podagra).