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five-legged

[ fahyv-leg-id, -legd ]
/ ˈfaɪvˈlɛg ɪd, -ˈlɛgd /
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adjective Nautical.
(of a schooner) having five masts.
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Words nearby five-legged

five-gaited, five hole, five hundred, five hundred rummy, five Ks, five-legged, Five Nations, Five Nations Championship, five o'clock shadow, fivepenny, fivepins
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How to use five-legged in a sentence

  • Remember the time they had with those awful five-legged things from Canis Major?

    The Women-Stealers of Thrayx|Fox B. Holden

  • Some of them abused us, and others looked on in silence, as they might have looked at an elephant or a five-legged calf.

    The Lost Army|Thomas W. Knox

  • It was in the year that I discovered a five-legged frog, and wrote a book about it.

    The Motor Boys Over the Rockies|Clarence Young

  • I have seen a five-legged cow, the fifth leg on the top of the back standing up straight.

    Studies in the Epistle of James|A. T. Robertson
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