THREE-LEGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does three-legged mean? 

• THREE-LEGGED (adjective)
  The adjective THREE-LEGGED has 1 sense:

1. having or as if having three legs

  Familiarity information: THREE-LEGGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREE-LEGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or as if having three legs

Context example:

a three-legged race

Similar:

legged (having legs of a specified kind or number)

 Context examples 

All that he asked was done, and soon he was riding on his three-legged horse.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her sister eating apples and crying over the Heir of Redclyffe, wrapped up in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa by the sunny window.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon his knees, staring into the fire.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Take back your horse and your troops, and give me my three-legged horse again.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The youth made over his three-legged horse to the stable-boy, mounted the other, and rode at the head of the soldiers.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She inquired of the gardener where his boy was, but he smiled, and said: “He has just come home on his three-legged horse, and the others have been mocking him, and crying: “Here comes our hobblety jib back again!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Now Sultan had nobody he could ask to be his second but the shepherd’s old three-legged cat; so he took her with him, and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble, she stuck up her tail straight in the air.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)