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Spindle-shanked   Listen
adjective
Spindle-shanked  adj.  Having long, slender legs.





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"Spindle-shanked" Quotes from Famous Books



... must call him a spindle-shanked clodhopper. That's what the bailiff calls him when ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... a devilish thing it is, for a Woman to be obliged to go to bed to a spindle-shanked young Squire, she doth not like, when there is a jolly Parson in the same House ...
— An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews • Conny Keyber


Words linked to "Spindle-shanked" :   lean, thin, spindle-legged


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