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legged

  • adjective
  • /ˈlɛɡɪd/

Having legs of a certain specified type or number.

Example

“Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.”

Other meanings

  1. 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.”

  2. Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.

Word history

From Middle English "legged".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “legged” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.