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spider-leg
Also spider leg.
[spider n. 9 b.]
1. A thin, long leg like those of a spider.
Also dial. (in pl.), a spider-legged or lanky person.
1760Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. i, Whilst..these two spider legs of mine..are able to support me. 1833J. Nyren Yng. Cricketer's Tutor (1902) 107 He was..remarkably broad in the chest, with large hips and spider legs. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xxi, In that period of spider-legs and inlaid cupids. 1861Romance of Dull Life xxi. 154 How ridiculously slim the spider-legs of the dining-room sideboard!
2. transf. A long irregular marking, crack, wrinkle, etc., resembling in shape the leg of a spider. Also attrib. in spider-leg gold.
1873E. Spon Workshop Rec. Ser. i. 303/1 The breaking of the gold into irregular fractures called spider-legs. 1889Binns Wilsden Orig. No. 1. 1 (E.D.D.), Thi forheead's a big un, No line o' care, No ‘student's spider-legs’, Can be seen there. 1898Daily News 28 Jan. 5/7 The nuggets there all have the ‘spider-leg’ gold adhering. |