legged
nounEtymology From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.
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In combinations Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs
- Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.
legged
adj/ˈlɛɡɪd/ · /ˈlɛɡd/
Etymology From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.
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In compounds Having legs of a certain specified type or number.
- Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.
- Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.
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- The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:
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Having legs; provided with legs.
- A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots.
- Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels.1948, American Antiquity - Volumes 13-14, page 111:
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- DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities1987, Army Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A 1987 Review, page 10:
- Beginning with his hopping robots at the MIT Leg Lab (Raibert, 1986), Marc Raibert has advanced the state of the art in legged robot control for practical application.2011, Paul Muench, Efficiency and Speed in Legged Robotics, →ISBN, page 6:
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Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.
- Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged!1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 61:
- Derived terms
45 terms
black-legged kittiwake, black-legged tick, bow-legged wi' brass, eight-legged essay, feather-legged bug, four-legged emmet, four-legged friend, frog-legged beetle, grey-legged tinamou, leggedness, long-legged buzzard, long-legged fly, one legged, peg legged, red-legged cormorant, red-legged golden orb-weaver spider, red-legged partridge, red-legged tinamou, ride the three-legged mare, rough-legged buzzard, rough-legged hawk, slaty-legged crake, spindle-legged, splay-legged, spot-legged poison frog, stout-legged moa, thousand-legged worm, thread-legged bug, three-legged mare, Three-legged mare, three-legged race, two-legged eel, two-legged mare, two-legged tie, yellow-legged gull, yellow-legged tinamou, one-legged, two-legged, three-legged, four-legged, five-legged, six-legged, eight-legged, multilegged, no-legged- Hyponyms
- badger-legged, baker-legged, bandy-legged, barelegged, bow-legged, cross-legged, duck-legged, light-legged, long-legged, peg-legged, puff-legged, rough-legged, short-legged, spraddle-legged, spraddlelegged, wooden-legged