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Definition of spindle-shanks in English: spindle-shanksplural noun dated, informal 1Long thin legs. - 1.1treated as singular A person with long thin legs.
Example sentencesExamples - The latter role is danced by Alain Honorez, a spindle-shanks of towering talents and demonic energy, who almost (but not quite) upstaged the leads with his dazzling display of movement.
Derivatives adjective dated, informal The figure of Horatio Nelson, slender, one-armed, eccentric, spindle-shanked and awkward, bestrides our naval history. Example sentencesExamples - He suffered from poor digestion, and is said to have been spindle-shanked.
- A spindle-shanked figure came into view, bent against the wind.
- A brown-haired, spindle-shanked human with a flowing beard of startling white scurried past piles of cargo.
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