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ˈdog-leg, a.
1. Of a bent form like a dog's hind leg; as in dog-leg chisel, ‘a crooked-shanked chisel used in smoothing the bottoms of grooves’ (Knight); dog-leg fence (Australia), a fence made by logs or trees laid horizontally on supports crossing X-wise; dog-leg hole, in Golf; dog-leg stair = dog-legged stair.
1889Boldrewood Robbery under Arms (1890) 71 A longish wing of dogleg fence. 1895Jrnl. R. Inst. Brit. Archit. 14 Mar. 351 A dog-leg stair about 4 feet wide. 1903‘T. Collins’ Such is Life 75 The wild cattle having walked over the dog-leg fence. 1904S. Rudd Sandy's Selection 30 A cultivation paddock enclosed with a dog-leg fence. 1907Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 7/2 There are two or three very fine specimens of the dog-leg kind of hole. 1909Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 4/2 There is the occasional variety of the ‘dog-leg’ hole, where the player has to go round an angle. 1935Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Jan. 21/1 Companion of the dog-leg fence and huts of stringbark. 1959News Chron. 14 Dec. 4/3, I had flown 650 miles on a dog-leg course. 1962Times 27 Nov. 13/2 Gone are the ‘dog leg’ corners of the earlier wind⁓screen. 1967Listener 9 Feb. 196/3 The dog-leg bend in the branch duct follows the wall above where the ward widens.
2. Applied to an inferior quality of tobacco. Also ellipt. as n. U.S.
1858Nat. Intelligencer (Washington) 10 July 3/3 A large quantity of ‘dog-leg’ tobacco and red pepper is then thrown into the tub. 1863‘E. Kirke’ My Southern Friends iii. 48 The other [apartment] was densely crowded with logwood, ‘dog-leg’,..and cistern water. 1868Congress. Globe 18 Mar., App. 287/1 Watching the neighbors pitch horseshoes for dog-leg tobacco. 1891M. E. Ryan Pagan of Alleghanies ii. 25 Then the black-and-tan man treated himself to a fresh chew of ‘dog-leg’. |