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white leg

British  

noun

  1. another name for milk leg

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It was a bay with a white leg, and I knew that Cockeye used to ride such a horse, and that there wasn't a better in the colony.

From A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The people then pulled off my boots, and burst out into an involuntary exclamation of astonishment when they saw my white leg under my stocking.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James

She did her best, poor thing, and several times we in the boat below saw a stout white leg suddenly descend, but it was immediately drawn back, and she never let go of her sailors.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King

He caught sight of several inches of white leg above a pair of elastic-sided boots, out of which dangled black and orange tabs.

From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Jenkins, Hebert

The suggestion was received with a howl of applause, and, three minutes later, the bare portion of MacGregor's white leg was made to correspond in color with the other.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

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