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three-legged

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Adj.1.three-legged - having or as if having three legs; "a three-legged stool"; "a three-legged race"
legged - having legs of a specified kind or number; "four-legged animals"; "a peg-legged man"
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three-legged [ˈθriːˈlegɪd] ADJ → de tres patas, de tres pies
three-legged [ˌθriːˈlɛgɪd] adj (table, stool) → a tre gambe
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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 Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
Each girl sat down on her three-legged stool, her face sideways, her right cheek resting against the cow; and looked musingly along the animal's flank at Tess as she approached.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
Strickland would not go near them, not from any affectation of stoicism, for I found him seated on a three-legged stool when I went into the studio one day and he was alone, but because he did not like them.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
 
 
 
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