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dog-legged, a. Arch.|ˈdɒglɛgd|
a. Applied to a staircase, without a well-hole, the successive flights of which form a zig-zag.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 251 Dog-legg'd-stairs..first fly directly forward, then wind a Semicircle, and then fly directly back again, parallel to the first flight. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 189 Dog-legged stairs..have no well-hole. 1842–76Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. §2182.
b. Of a fence (see dog-leg a.). Austral. and N.Z.
1900H. Lawson Over Sliprails 95 A spidery dog-legged fence. 1935N. R. McKenzie Gael fares Forth 88 The ‘dog-legged’ [type of fence]..was apparently a purely Canadian type..made with stakes of varying length and the trunks of small trees. |