legged — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having legs of a certain specified type or number.

   Usage

   • In compounds
   • not-comparable

   Antonyms

   legless

   Examples

   Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.

   Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.

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   The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.

2. Having legs; provided with legs.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Antonyms

   legless

   Examples

   A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots.

   Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels.

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   DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities

   Beginning with his hopping robots at the MIT Leg Lab (Raibert, 1986), Marc Raibert has advanced the state of the art in legged robot control for practical application.

3. Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged!

Noun

1. Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs

   Usage

   • in combinations

   Examples

   Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.

Adjective

1. having legs of a specified kind or number

   Antonyms

   legless

   Examples

   four-legged animals

   a peg-legged man