club foot
noun
a knoblike foot formed from the end of a cabriole leg as a continuation of its lines: less flat than a pad foot but otherwise similar.
club-footed
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a word derived from
club foot.
Example Sentences
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"Here we are, talking of changing the world: George, the Lord Byron and Bysshe Shelley ... a pale vegetarian and a club-footed sodomite."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2012
Bewildered correspondents could get no news of the shooting at the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, which they found strangely vacated by club-footed Minister Paul Josef Goebbels and his propaganda staff.
From Time Magazine Archive
As an infant, Henry could toddle about only with difficulty because he was badly club-footed and on his left foot he had only one toe, the great.
From Time Magazine Archive
Looking club-footed in high-heeled stage shoes, Mr. Tagliabue was not so bad that the critics had to boo him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Taliped, tal′i-ped, adj. club-footed: walking like the sloth.—n. a club-footed person.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
