one-legged meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

one-legged

adj

/ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/

Etymology From one + legged.

Having only one leg.

Of an audio signal: having a thin sound as a result of connection through only one wire of a circuit pair.

[…] obviously wrong termination is likely to lead to a thin 'one-legged' sound with significant loss of level, and/or distortion.2000, Philip Richard Newell, Project Studios: A More Professional Approach, page 40:
[…] you have to bear in mind that your sound files in these circumstances will have a one legged stereo recording.2013, Tim Crook, The Sound Handbook, page 100:

Related terms: two-legged, three-legged, four-legged, one-armed, biped, quadruped

noun

Etymology From one + legged.

A plant, especially a tree.

In other words, people engage in communicative relationships not only with other people, but also with four-leggeds, one-leggeds, and no-leggeds, with trees, plants, and rocks, with the sun, moon, and stars, ...2000, Lois J. Einhorn, The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul, →ISBN:
We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:

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The arrow, for instance, combines gifts of stone for the head (from no-leggeds, who live within the Earth), wood for the shaft (from one-leggeds, trees, who unite Earth and Sky, and resembling the bole), and feathers (from two-leggeds, who live in the Sky); the stone is its head (Thoreau called arrowheads "fossilized thoughts"), the shaft its body, the feathers its wings.2012, James David Audlin, The Circle of Life, →ISBN, page 256: