web-footed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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A web-footed loner navigates a landless Earth, while a ruthless gangster chases him, a woman and their young companion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
Among Mr. Perry’s earliest acting credits was a gig performing as Freddie Bird, his high school’s web-footed mascot.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2019
When Emperor Haile Selassie was in town, Simmons' menu taboos included the flesh of web-footed fowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a field better suited to the activities of ducks than to the less web-footed endeavors of spike-shod ball-bearers, a muddy team from Pittsburgh beat a muddy team from Carnegie Tech, 12 to 0.
From Time Magazine Archive
Auk, awk, n. a genus of web-footed sea-birds, with short wings used only as paddles, found in the northern seas.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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