Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Long, slim legs; hence, a tall, thin person with such legs or shanks: used humorously or in contempt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A spindleshanks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun long thin legs
- noun a thin person with long thin legs
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Examples
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Everything was still very quiet, but smoke was rising from the solid farm chimneys, and, rounding the corners of some large outbuildings, she came suddenly upon more life -- feathery, fantastic life of spindlelegs and fluttering wings.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley
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His spindlelegs and sparrow feet are those of the tenor Mario, prince of Candia.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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