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Meanings of long-shanked in English

Having long legs.

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Usage of long-shanked in English
1
Quickly, with a lilt in her movement, she fetched her work-basket, and together they examined the long-shanked old scissors.
The Prussian Officer
2
He shot the five shots without appreciable sighting before each, as fast as his thumb could pull back the long-shanked hammer.
The Rules of the Game
3
He laid great stress and emphasis on having 'his short pipe' with him, probably reserving a regular long-shanked 'churchwarden' for home use.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
4
Black Kettle, Connell and several other men began to smoke a long-shanked pipe that they passed around the semicircle with great ceremony.
Frontier courtship
5
'Out of the way with these long-shanked flamingoes!'
Norse Tales and Sketches
6
'A long-shanked trooper, bearing the name of John Thomas Drew, was crawling along under fire of the batteries.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2