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Meanings of long-shanked in English

Having long legs.

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Examples for "leggy"
Examples for "leggy"
1
His attention was one hundred and ten percent on the leggy brunette.
A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
2
It wouldn't be that leggy blonde in the loan office, would it?
Hell hath no fury
3
Not that a leggy, 118-pound woman can't get by with minimal effort.
With friends like these
4
I assume that as a Swede, I will be a leggy blonde.
Funny in Farsi
5
Angie was a leggy redhead I'd hardly exchanged two words with.
Dead ever after
1
Ayla looked across the water at the large, long-billed, long-legged, stately birds.
The Plains of Passage
2
Archer is a long-legged 28-year-old northern Calif. who stands six feet six.
The new yorker
3
Broad- shouldered and long-legged, he looked too large for the silver chair.
Career of Evil
4
Beside the Mississippians lay a regiment of long-legged, sinewy riflemen from Arkansas.
The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
5
The long-legged Stork started also, but that was only for a joke.
The Curious Book of Birds
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