legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡɪd/
ipa: /ˈlɛɡd/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈlɛɡəd/
rhymes: -ɛɡɪd
rhymes: -ɛɡd
rhymes: -ɛɡəd
Etymology: From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.
text: Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.
text: The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:
antonyms: legless
coordinate_terms: armed#Etymology_2
glosses: Having legs of a certain specified type or number.
examples: text: A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots
text: Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels.
ref: 1948, American Antiquity - Volumes 13-14, page 111:
text: DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities
ref: 1987, Army Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A 1987 Review, page 10:
text: Beginning with his hopping robots at the MIT Leg Lab (Raibert, 1986), Marc Raibert has advanced the state of the art in legged robot control for practical application.
ref: 2011, Paul Muench, Efficiency and Speed in Legged Robotics, →ISBN, page 6:
antonyms: legless
glosses: Having legs; provided with legs.
examples: text: Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged!
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 61:
coordinate_terms: brained
winged
glosses: Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.
Hyponyms: sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: badger-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: baker-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: bandy-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: barelegged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: bow-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: cross-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: duck-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: light-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: long-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: peg-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: puff-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: rough-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: short-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: spraddle-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: spraddlelegged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular quality”
word: wooden-legged
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: black-legged kittiwake
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: black-legged tick
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: bow-legged wi' brass
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: eight-legged essay
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: feather-legged bug
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: four-legged emmet
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: four-legged friend
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: frog-legged beetle
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: grey-legged tinamou
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: leggedness
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: long-legged buzzard
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: long-legged fly
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: one legged
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: peg legged
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: red-legged cormorant
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: red-legged golden orb-weaver spider
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: red-legged partridge
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: red-legged tinamou
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: ride the three-legged mare
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: rough-legged buzzard
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: rough-legged hawk
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: slaty-legged crake
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: spindle-legged
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: splay-legged
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: spot-legged poison frog
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: thread-legged bug
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: Three-legged mare
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: three-legged mare
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: three-legged race
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: two-legged eel
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: two-legged mare
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: two-legged tie
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: yellow-legged gull
sense: terms derived from “legged”
word: yellow-legged tinamou
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”
word: one-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”
word: two-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”
word: three-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”
word: four-legged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”
word: multilegged
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having legs of a particular number”
word: no-legged