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white leg

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noun

  1. another name for milk leg

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Stella is just now showing a white leg, and putting it into the slipper.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

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)

“Not to-day,” said Max, giving involuntarily a rub of one white leg against the other.

From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by Fenn, George Manville

“Hang the scoundrels!” he cried; “anyone would think they had never seen an old man’s white leg before.”

From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by Schonberg, John

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