spindle-legged

adjective

He lifted a spindle-legged table in the air and went on talking.

The table and a few of the chairs looked like our spindle-legged Chippendale things.

I'm an old codger, sir, but I'm worth—a dozen o' you—spindle-legged chaps; dum me if I ain't, sir!

He gave us an order, and one of the boys near me said in a loud undertone, "Go to hell, you spindle-legged old crow."

Page 61: Changed "Spindle-legged" to "spindle-legged" (little spindle-legged Dragonfly).

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