long-shanked

Trouble is, most people use regular, long-shanked worm hooks, which are too big and aren't weedless.

2007 Fishing Gear Buyer's Guide: Lures and Baits 2007

Uladeslaus Cubitalis that pigmy king of Poland reigned and fought more victorious battles than any of his long-shanked predecessors.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Or a long-shanked baby of her very own for a girl who was a little too old for a child's dolls, Bradamant thought, and not quite old enough to marry.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Birds were more abundant: long-shanked water-fowl with hazel eyes; red-legged rail; the brown swallow of Egypt; green-blue fly-catchers; and a black muscivor, with a snowy-white rump, of which I failed to secure a specimen.

The Land of Midian 2003

Quickly, with a lilt in her movement, she fetched her work-basket, and together they examined the long-shanked old scissors.

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

In the bottom left drawer she found a wooden cigar box containing a rich cache of keys; unfortunately, most of them were of the long-shanked skeleton type gone black with age, obviously original to the building.

A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999

“Or a long-shanked mortal mage,” interrupted the other male.

The Realms of the Gods Tamora Pierce 1996

“Or a long-shanked mortal mage,” interrupted the other male.

The Realms of the Gods Tamora Pierce 1996

'On Persephone,' informed Harrison, 'a long-shanked Milik offered me a twenty-carat, blue-tinted, first-water diamond for my bike. '

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

He laid great stress and emphasis on having 'his short pipe' with him, probably reserving a regular long-shanked 'churchwarden' for home use.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor