CROSS-LEGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cross-legged mean? 

• CROSS-LEGGED (adverb)
  The adverb CROSS-LEGGED has 1 sense:

1. with the legs crossed

  Familiarity information: CROSS-LEGGED used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSS-LEGGED (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With the legs crossed

Context example:

he sat on the floor cross-legged and meditated

 Context examples 

I mounted into the window- seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With these he constructed a sort of Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front of him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was Aylward squatting cross-legged in his shirt, while he scrubbed away at his chain-mail brigandine, whistling loudly the while.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, no! said the young man; sitting cross-legged from morning to night, working backwards and forwards with a needle and goose, will never suit me.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)