Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
spindle-legged .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having long, slender legs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having long slender legs
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Examples
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Michael himself might be afraid of forgetting his lines, but when he bestrode the stage as grinning, spindle-shanked Death, the Grim Reaper, the audience was always afraid of Michael.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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Michael himself might be afraid of forgetting his lines, but when he bestrode the stage as grinning, spindle-shanked Death, the Grim Reaper, the audience was always afraid of Michael.
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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Old spindle-shanked Edgar sits next to her and feels the aura of the streets and thinks herself back into another century.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Old spindle-shanked Edgar sits next to her and feels the aura of the streets and thinks herself back into another century.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Just in front of a brick building called the Town House, which sits in the very middle of King Street, I found a spindle-shanked boy, no more than ten, peddling salted cod wrapped in old newspaper.
'Blindspot' 2008
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Old spindle-shanked Edgar sits next to her and feels the aura of the streets and thinks herself back into another century.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders — of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St. Michael of Pumpernickel were most conspicuous.
Vanity Fair 2006
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"Heard you got tossed out of camp again, Hamlin," Roscoe Knapp said to a tall, pale-faced, spindle-shanked fellow.
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Now Wyrzbowski could see the muckamuck, resplendent in the egg-sack slime of its body suit, wielding its red fearmonger while flunkies covered its spindle-shanked ass.
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It was a fair lesson of humility for a man to find himself ranked beneath this high-shouldered, spindle-shanked, beardless bit of neutrality; and as such I took it duly to heart.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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