A leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee)
Outward curvature of the legs.
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Examples for "bow legs "
Examples for "bow legs "
1 You know he's a very short, fat little man with bow legs .
2 He waddled in upon his bow legs , and the two exchanged hearty greetings.
3 The physical symptoms of rickets are bow legs and pigeon breast.
4 They look like long, fat, hair-covered balloons, with minute bow legs , enormous and protuberant eyes, and long flopping ears.
5 He had neither the bow legs nor the ungraceful roll of the man who rides most of his waking hours.
1 But the mole kicked him with his bandy legs and said:
2 He wore a pointed cap, and had a long nose and bandy legs .
3 Halloran was a short, stocky man with a barrel chest and bandy legs .
4 Lively! shouted the corporal waddling about importantly on his bandy legs .
5 Sambo of the bandy legs slammed the carriage door on his young weeping mistress.
1 Arthur strutted out of my bedroom on his sturdy, slightly bowed legs .
2 You know he's a very short, fat little man with bow legs .
3 He waddled in upon his bow legs , and the two exchanged hearty greetings.
4 The physical symptoms of rickets are bow legs and pigeon breast.
5 West glared at Morse, his heavy chin outthrust, his bowed legs wide apart.
6 It was Corporal Nurylbayev, a tall, potbellied man with bowed legs .
7 Human children, their grotesque little bowed legs bare, played in the nearby dirt.
8 He weaves slightly on bowed legs , casting an uneven light from the swinging lantern.
9 Jones stood firm on slightly bowed legs , the battleaxe turning lightly in his hands.
10 Specially, he ain't so good at ridin'-youknow what bowed legs he's got, Kate?
11 That was the beginning of the Bow Leg Mountains.
12 Chest and shoulders were immense, the arms too long, the slightly bowed legs too short.
13 The woman was young, of white blood, very short, with bowed legs and enormous shoulders.
14 Then he climbs down, slips his hand inside Pete's, and ambles off on bowed legs .
15 As we humans became bipedal, our legs straightened, unlike the bowed legs of a chimp.
16 Dark-mantled and hump-backed, he had bowed legs and a head shaped like a black mattock.
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