Rough-legged

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• Legged

  ·adj Having (such or so many) legs; — used in composition; as, a long-legged man; a two-legged anim...

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• Rough

  ·noun Produced offhand. II. Rough ·noun Boisterous weather. III. Rough ·adv In a rough manner; rud...

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• rough

  To lie rough; to lie all night in one's clothes: called also roughing it. Likewise to sleep on the b...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rough

  or Roughy, or Ruffy,or Ruffie n. a Victorian fish, Arripisgeorgianus, Cuv. and Val., family Percid...

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• Badger-legged

  ·adj Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. ...

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• Baker-legged

  ·adj Having legs that bend inward at the knees. ...

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• Bandy-legged

  ·adj Having crooked legs. ...

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• Bowl-legged

  ·adj Having crooked legs, ·esp. with the knees bent outward. ...

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• Dog-legged

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• Duck-legged

  ·adj Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged. ...

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• Light-legged

  ·adj Nimble; swift of foot. ...

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• Near-legged

  ·adj Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling. ...

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• Puff-legged

  ·adj Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs. ...

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• Spindle-legged

  ·adj Having long, slender legs. ...

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• long-legged

  Said of a vessel drawing much water. ♦ Long leggers, lean schooners. Longer than ordinary proporti...

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• Rough-footed

  ·adj Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. ...

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• Rough-grained

  ·adj Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not poli...

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• rough music

  Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, &c. beaten upon and...

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• rough fig

  n. See under fig-tree. ...

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• rough books

  Those in which the warrant officers make their immediate entries of expenditure. ...

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• rough nauts

  See rough-knots ...

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• rough-knots

  , or rough nauts. Unsophisticated seamen. ...

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• rough music

  Rolling shot about on the lower deck, and other discordant noises, when seamen are discontented, but...

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• rough-spars

  Cut timber before being worked into masts, &c. ...

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• rough-tree

  An unfinished spar: also a name given in merchant ships to any mast, or other spar above the ship's ...

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• three-legged mare

  The gallows, formerly consisting of three posts, over which were laid three transverse beams. This c...

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• rough-leaved fig

  n. See under fig-tree. ...

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• rough-tree timber

  Upright pieces of timber placed at intervals along the side of a vessel, to support the rough-tree. ...

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