Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a specified kind or number of legs. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having legs: often in composition: as, the legged maple-borer; a two-legged animal.
- In heraldry, having legs, as a bird, of a different tincture from the body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having (such or so many) legs; -- used in composition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a certain
type ornumber oflegs - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
leg .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having legs of a specified kind or number
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aaron Rifkin legged out a run-scoring triple in the sixth for
USATODAY.com 2003
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Even his shooting badges are improperly "legged" w/re to number of awards.
MARK N MANOZZI 2010
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There's old Dick over in that bed there; he used to go 'mumping,' and when he got boosey with too much lush he stole some paltry thing or other, and being so often convicted they have 'legged' [12] him at last.
Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous
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The one complaint possible against Isadora Duncan is that she has rendered us immoderately dissatisfied with what had once moderately contented us; and the fear is that we shall promptly have a host of half-baked imitators, who will copy the mere accidentals of her system without understanding the essentials, and will fancy that the whole matter is one of clothes and music, and prance about bare-legged, meaninglessly.
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896
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Such was the congestion caused by this 9 feet wide tunnel where the lack of a towing path meant that boats had to be "legged" through, that by 1827 a second tunnel, build by Thomas Telford was completed.
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Such was the congestion caused by this 9 feet wide tunnel where the lack of a towing path meant that boats had to be "legged" through, that by 1827 a second tunnel, build by Thomas Telford was completed.
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This is an investment that can be "legged" into (selling calls on up days and puts on down days) to maximize the premium collected.
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Bare white walls, chrome legged sofas, black leather - really masculine and clinical.
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Protect your four-legged loved one from extreme weather conditions and all the hazards that come with the cold.
Wendy Diamond: How To Keep Your Pet Safe And Warm This Winter Wendy Diamond 2011
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In Cairo, another effigy of the president made its way around the crowd prone on a donkey cart, preceded by a number of boys pretending to march stiff-legged as if in a state funeral procession.
Diverse Crowds Unify in Huge, Calm Protest Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011
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