LEGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legged mean? 

• LEGGED (adjective)
  The adjective LEGGED has 1 sense:

1. having legs of a specified kind or number

  Familiarity information: LEGGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having legs of a specified kind or number

Context example:

a peg-legged man

Similar:

leglike (resembling or functioning like a leg)

straight-legged (having straight legs)

three-legged (having or as if having three legs)

Antonym:

legless (not having legs)

 Context examples 

The youth made over his three-legged horse to the stable-boy, mounted the other, and rode at the head of the soldiers.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Some were short-legged—too short; others were long-legged—too long.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Far down the road a long-legged figure was running, with a bundle under one arm and the other hand to his side, like a man who laughs until he is sore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I'd put in the same years cow-punching, with my body young and pliable, I wouldn't be rolling now, but I'd be bow-legged.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"What have you done anyway that a two-legged other animal should come along, break you to harness, curb all your natural proclivities, and make slave- beasts out of you?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Wot box?” said the long-legged young man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This is a sturdy, short legged, little dog with a rough-textured, weatherproof coat of about 2-3 inches in length.

(Australian Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

In most four-legged animals, like lizards, the vertebrae all look and function the same.

(What makes a mammal a mammal? Our spine, say scientists, National Science Foundation)

The Glen of Imaal Terrier is a sturdy dog that resembles the Welsh Corgi - a short legged dog that is low to the ground with a long body.

(Glen of Imaal Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

The group also is assessing how viruses grow in cells of the cultured tick midgut to help identify different viruses that can grow in black-legged ticks.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)