Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having splay-feet.
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Examples
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He wore black jeans, a short-sleeve Western shirt with the sleeves cuffed, and he walked with a splay-footed swagger.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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He wore black jeans, a short-sleeve Western shirt with the sleeves cuffed, and he walked with a splay-footed swagger.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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He wore black jeans, a short-sleeve Western shirt with the sleeves cuffed, and he walked with a splay-footed swagger.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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If blacks were given the right to vote, that would "place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored Negro in the country upon an equality with the poor white man."
Whitewash 2007
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Mr. Lambert was in the right in calling a fond wife by the name of that absurd splay-footed bird, annually sacrificed at the Feast of
The Virginians 2006
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The body is contained in a perpendicular, parchment-like, splay-footed tube a foot and a half or two feet long, whence the heads obtrude alternately as buds along a growing branch.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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Inman followed the woman, noting that she stepped with inturned toes, a style of walking often said to be favored by Indians, though Inman had known many a Cherokee, Swimmer among them, who walked splay-footed as mergansers.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Its legs had shortened to give it a splay-footed stance, and the digits of its paws had lengthened and spread like fingers to end in hooked claws.
Antrax Brooks, Terry 2001
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Inman followed the woman, noting that she stepped with inturned toes, a style of walking often said to be favored by Indians, though Inman had known many a Cherokee, Swimmer among them, who walked splay-footed as mergansers.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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Big and wide and heavy, folded now into the hull, but when they were down, they were comically splay-footed, with a wide reach to hold the ship on almost any terrain.
Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994
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