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three-legged

[ three-leg-id, -legd ]

adjective

  1. having three legs:

    a three-legged stool.

  2. Informal. (of a schooner) having three masts.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of three-legged1

First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences

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"She came to us three-legged because she broke her leg on the Valley track and was left there by her trainer," he said.

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Trio is a three-legged dog; Jolene, I believe, is in a wheelchair.

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If racing becomes a three-legged stool, the chances of collapse are major.

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This axis was a three-legged stool — based on Iran, Syria and the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah — and it can no longer stand.

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In another enclosure, Mozart, a three-legged gray fox with no spleen, peered warily from a tunnel of corrugated tubing.

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