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Knee-high   /ni-haɪ/   Listen
Knee-high

adverb
1.
Up to the knees.  Synonym: knee-deep.






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"Knee-high" Quotes from Famous Books



... ground for a depth of four feet. Yet here we were in a very tropic of growth run riot and the frost, which still lay beneath the upper soil, was thawing and moistening the succulent roots of a wilderness of green. The meadow grass, swaying off to the forest margin in billowy ripples, was already knee-high. The woods were an impenetrable mass of foliage from the forest of ferns about the broad trunks to the high tree-tops, nodding and fanning in the night breeze like coquettish dames in an eastern ball-room. Everywhere—at the river bank, where our tents stood, above the long grass, and in the ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut

... and pigeons come here on account of the springs like this one, and I get 'em with a bow and arrow. I didn't call myself Robin Hood and Daniel Boone not for nothin' when I was knee-high to a grasshopper." He drew from a rough cupboard some cold game, and put it on the table, with some scones and a pannikin of water. Then he brought out a small jug of whiskey and placed it beside his visitor. They ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker



Words linked to "Knee-high" :   knee-deep, stocking, sock, knee-hi



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