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LEGGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having legs of a specified kind or number
Example:
a peg-legged man
Classified under:
Similar:
leglike (resembling or functioning like a leg)
straight-legged (having straight legs)
three-legged (having or as if having three legs)
Antonym:
legless (not having legs)
Context examples:
I mounted into the window- seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The authors proposed that, in Caudipteryx, from a mechanical perspective, two-legged running automatically induced wing flapping.
(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)
This at first seemed a great misfortune, for I knew a one-legged man could not do very well as a wood-chopper.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
It squirmed about, like some huge many-legged spider, and swayed back and forth to the regular roll of the vessel.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
There a bare-legged shepherd, in wooden shoes, pointed hat, and rough jacket over one shoulder, sat piping on a stone while his goats skipped among the rocks or lay at his feet.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was a valiant move but a foolish one, for the great bandy-legged creatures were slow of foot, while their opponents were as active as cats.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With these he constructed a sort of Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front of him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, to tell you the truth, from the very first mention of Long John in Squire Trelawney's letter I had taken a fear in my mind that he might prove to be the very one-legged sailor whom I had watched for so long at the old Benbow.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The vision of the short-legged hairy man came to him more frequently, now that there was little work to be done; and often, blinking by the fire, Buck wandered with him in that other world which he remembered.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
A man came slinking along, went into the hut, gave a cry as if he had seen a ghost, and legged it as hard as he could run until he was out of sight.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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