1787 ‘G. Gambado’ 4 The pitiful spider-legged things of this age fly into a ditch with you, at the sight of a pocket handkerchief.
1871 C. Kingsley I. i. 30 Sand-brush,..through which the spider-legged mangroves rose on stilted roots.
1894 W. S. Simpson (1899) 146 Not an angular spider-legged Frenchified hand, but a clear round legible hand.