spindle-shanked
- a word derived from spindleshanks.
Example Sentences
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As a squad, it epitomizes the current trend in basketball away from the spindle-shanked hotshot and the gawky goon, toward towering, robust and superbly coordinated players who can run at top speed all night.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was one Mary Hickman, teacher, addressing spindle-shanked Jimmy Edwin Christman, aged nine.
From Time Magazine Archive
A rugged character, which showed even in childhood, made him, at 14, a spindle-shanked but determined assistant village tax collector.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I still have unquenchable faith in Civil Disobedience," wrote spindle-shanked Mahatma Gandhi, loinclothed, ascetic patron saint of Indian Independence, a month ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, you know, I was down at Thorman’s place one evening, and old Garthorpe came jogging up on that spindle-shanked nag of his.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
