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long-legged, a.
a. Having long legs: used spec. in the names of some animals.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. ii. 21 Hence you long-leg'd Spinners, hence. 1592Chettle Kinde-harts Dr. (1841) 18 Is it not absurde to see a long legd lubber pinned in a chayre [etc.]? 1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1079/4 They are shaped like a Moscovy Mallard, but larger and longer legg'd. 1717Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy 30 May in Fraser Life (1871) 555 All the spiders except the long-legged ones bite. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xix, What could have brought down the lang-legged loons to do their bloody wark within burgh? 1831A. Wilson & Bonaparte Amer. Ornith. III. 75 Recurvirostra himantopus..Long-legged plover. 1848Johnston in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 6. 292 The Phalangia,..or long-legged spiders. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 14 A long-legged puppy.
b. Naut. Of a ship: Drawing a great deal of water. Hence long leg (see quots.) (slang.)
1802Naval Chron. VIII. 83 Those ships being, to make use of a nautical phrase, too long legged for the eastern yard. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 85 Long leg, a big difference in the draught forward and aft in a sailing ship. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 137 Any sailing vessel that draws a lot of water is said to have a long leg. |