Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to a number of things which have a bent form resembling that of a dog's hind leg. See
dog-legged .
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Examples
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Those little 600's are awesome, that much-maligned backward dog-leg bolt was perfect in that it wouldn't thump your knuckle when the rifle recoils.
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The next lap was when he was inside him and turned right on the left-turning dog-leg front stretch to wreck Brad.
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A partial right, then a sort of dog-leg left and turn under an elevated subway track which obscures the street sign in shadow, but if I've figured my online directions correctly, if there is any logic or mercy to Queens 'street system, if there's any justice in the world, it will be the street I need.
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But now I think about it, it's remarkable how many threads can take a dog-leg onto discussing general day-to-day life in Rochdale without any admonishments being handed out.
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Porro prisms are the older, "dog-leg" style of binoculars; roof prisms are "straight-through" Porro prisms are cheaper to make than roofs, but roof prisms are slimmer, lighter, easier to waterproof, and they are what I would get.
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The double bowtie MacGyver #10 is genetically much different from the actual Steiner solutions, wherein two bowties are twisted and mutated to form the central dog-leg junction-of-bowties.
Design Challenge Results: "Evolution is Smarter than You Are" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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However, looking over the simulation results, I noticed that the best answers indeed came from a mutated version of the Double Bowtie, in which the four segments connecting the middle two points 2 and 5 could be replaced by only three segments in the shape of a dog-leg, and that this could be realized by tilting both Bowties at a slight angle, either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Design Challenge Results: "Evolution is Smarter than You Are" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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But, Cheney's political fortunes have taken an unforeseeable dog-leg.
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It's a 430-yard hole with a sharp dog-leg to the right.
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It's a 430-yard hole with a sharp dog-leg to the right.
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