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Definition of Three-legged
1. Adjective. Having or as if having three legs. "A three-legged race"
Definition of Three-legged
1. Adjective. having three legs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Three-legged
Literary usage of Three-legged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The five great monarchies of the ancient Eastern world; or, The history by George Rawlinson (1871)
"Occasionally we find a representation of a three-legged table, as the above
specimen, which is from a relief at ..."
2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"Friedrich goes out to meet his three-legged Monster ; cuts one Leg of it in
two (Fight of Hen- ... Threelegged ..."
3. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"About the same time that I published the above account of this curious horse, I
heard that there was a match to it, in the shape of a three-legged cow, ..."
4. A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1854)
"3. Of ordinary construction, in the same collection. British Museum. A stool with
leather cushion. British Museum Figs. 1, 2. three-legged stools, from the ..."
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