MID-CALF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mid-calf mean? 

• MID-CALF (noun)
  The noun MID-CALF has 1 sense:

1. the middle of the calf; half way between the knee and ankle

  Familiarity information: MID-CALF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MID-CALF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The middle of the calf; half way between the knee and ankle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("mid-calf" is a kind of...):

calf; sura (the muscular back part of the shank)

 Context examples 

The wood was pretty open, and keeping along the lower spurs, I had soon turned the corner of that hill, and not long after waded to the mid-calf across the watercourse.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)