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three-legged

[ three-leg-id, -legd ]

adjective

  1. having three legs:

    a three-legged stool.

  2. Informal. (of a schooner) having three masts.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of three-legged1

First recorded in 1590–1600

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Example Sentences

But you know animal lovers live for that commercial where Sarah MacLachlan sings while three-legged puppies shed a single tear.

The crux of the matter is that to make the health-insurance system work requires a three-legged stool.

The children like to see their father and Frank sit on their three-legged stools in the stalls and milk the cows.

Jones placed the three-legged stool behind her, and the can between her hind legs.

All that he asked was done, and soon he was riding on his three-legged horse.

"Gie her her will, or she'll burst," quo' the man when his wife kamed his head with the three-legged stool.

Heidi flew to the hearth, and dragging the three-legged stool up to the table, sat herself down upon it.

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