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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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One of them, near Jacob, lured by the tempting plumpness, put out a long, red tongue, and gave a furtive lick to his fat white leg.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Then they sent and searched for the black body, and on it they found a white leg.

From In God's Garden Stories of the Saints for Little Children by Steedman, Amy

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

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

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

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)

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