Definitions
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- adjective Having a
splayfoot orsplayfeet
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having feet that turn outward
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Examples
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With their mixed ancestry, it was inevitable that some of the wild horses were born runts or splayfooted or swaybacked or too heavy-hocked to do anything but pull a manure wagon.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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With their mixed ancestry, it was inevitable that some of the wild horses were born runts or splayfooted or swaybacked or too heavy-hocked to do anything but pull a manure wagon.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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With their mixed ancestry, it was inevitable that some of the wild horses were born runts or splayfooted or swaybacked or too heavy-hocked to do anything but pull a manure wagon.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Black curls covered his ears and he had a splayfooted rocking gait and the demeanor of a large and lethal boy.
The Warden 2010
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He walked into the water, waddling splayfooted in the rubber fins.
Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009
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Sitting on six splayfooted aluminum legs, it was little more than an open-grillwork platform with a T-shaped control console up front where two space-suited people could stand, and a trio of bulky cargo
Empire Builders Bova, Ben 1993
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Everyone else rode the splayfooted dieren, if they rode anything.
Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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I sank into a splayfooted chair and accepted the crystal goblet Angus Mhor held out to me.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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It came up with a splayfooted shuffle which, awkward as it looked, would take it at an unvarying pace day after day across this tormented land.
Uncharted Stars Norton, Andre 1969
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The thin one, and the one with the splayfooted walk, who were they? '
The 9th Directive Hall, Adam 1966
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