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单词 spindle legs
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Definition of spindle legs in US English:

spindle legs

(also spindleshanks)
plural noun
  • 1Long thin legs.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He swears, shivers, swings spindle legs off the bed and lurches, teeth bared, into the stinging spray.
    • The furniture is either light, with spindle legs and wicker, or it is of a light color: the heaviest piece, the sofa, is made with the lightest color fabric, an off-white that's even paler than the pale pink walls.
    • Slab Coffee Table #1, 1945, for example, has kludgy disks (wooden washers) awkwardly screwed onto its underside with the spindle legs jutting out of them.
    • The turned spindle legs can be made by you - they are detailed on the baby cradle plans, or they can be purchased below!
    • It has a matching piano bench with spindle legs.
    • The round stool has turned spindle legs and a thickly upholstered beige fabric cushion, 63% cotton and 37% polyester.
    • With delicate yet sturdy spindle legs, the set includes a round table and 2 matching chairs.
    • Classic English country styling featuring parquet veneer tops, cast resin accents and square spindle legs are just a handful of elements found in the Bristol Collection.
    • The friend told that her head looked too big for her body and her thin spindle legs looked like they couldn't support the weight of her shoes.
    1. 1.1treated as singular A person with long thin legs.

Derivatives

  • spindle-legged

  • adjective
    • Ours was a brown box that sat on a spindle-legged stand and required a tall antenna.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was a tall spindle-legged youngster with long arms and hands at the pivot spot.
      • Two spindle-legged chairs covered with a lilac butterfly fabric coordinated to match the round white table.
      • The grasshopper seemed quite minuscule in comparison to the beast towering high above him, who could easily toss the gangling spindle-legged insect to one side with a single gesture of his monstrous paws.
      • The calves are born in May and are spindle-legged little creatures for the first few days.
 
 

Definition of spindle legs in US English:

spindle legs

(also spindleshanks)
plural noun
  • 1Long thin legs.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It has a matching piano bench with spindle legs.
    • The turned spindle legs can be made by you - they are detailed on the baby cradle plans, or they can be purchased below!
    • Classic English country styling featuring parquet veneer tops, cast resin accents and square spindle legs are just a handful of elements found in the Bristol Collection.
    • The friend told that her head looked too big for her body and her thin spindle legs looked like they couldn't support the weight of her shoes.
    • He swears, shivers, swings spindle legs off the bed and lurches, teeth bared, into the stinging spray.
    • The furniture is either light, with spindle legs and wicker, or it is of a light color: the heaviest piece, the sofa, is made with the lightest color fabric, an off-white that's even paler than the pale pink walls.
    • With delicate yet sturdy spindle legs, the set includes a round table and 2 matching chairs.
    • Slab Coffee Table #1, 1945, for example, has kludgy disks (wooden washers) awkwardly screwed onto its underside with the spindle legs jutting out of them.
    • The round stool has turned spindle legs and a thickly upholstered beige fabric cushion, 63% cotton and 37% polyester.
    1. 1.1treated as singular A person with long thin legs.
 
 
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