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Spindle-shanked

adjective
1.
Having long slender legs.  Synonym: spindle-legged.





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"Spindle-shanked" Quotes from Famous Books



... a tall, stooping, lantern-jawed, asthmatic-voiced, spindle-shanked fellow.' Here he put his foot on the rail of my chair, and slightly scratched the calf of his leg. 'Hair the color of a cock-canary,' thrusting his fingers through his own coal-black ringlets; 'with ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 - Volume 23, Number 2 • Various


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


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