Definitions

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  • adjective Having a splayfoot or splayfeet

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  • adjective having feet that turn outward

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Black curls covered his ears and he had a splayfooted rocking gait and the demeanor of a large and lethal boy.

    The Warden 2010

  • He walked into the water, waddling splayfooted in the rubber fins.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

  • 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

  • Everyone else rode the splayfooted dieren, if they rode anything.

    Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • I sank into a splayfooted chair and accepted the crystal goblet Angus Mhor held out to me.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • 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

  • The thin one, and the one with the splayfooted walk, who were they? '

    The 9th Directive Hall, Adam 1966

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