The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thousand legs \Thou"sand legs`\ (Zo["o]l.) A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.
Usage examples of "thousand legs".
Grabbed in a hundred places, blinded by scabby fingers, Byron was shunted up the well like a centipede with a thousand legs.
At this distance, almost a mile, the knights formed a dense mass, seeming to slide slightly rightward as they went like some dark creature with a thousand legs and spikes along its back.
They stared at me as if I were something with a thousand legs which they had found in their porridge bowl, and one of them asked why I was not home caring for my children.
The machine was a monstrous and weird creature, squat, round-backed, a cockroach with a thousand legs and a thousand teeth.
A creature with ten thousand throats and twenty thousand legs, a sprawling insensate monster that roared a meaningless word and had no ears to hear nor mind to reason.
A fortnight later one thousand men, with a thousand legs, a thousand arms and a thousand eyes between them, were ordered home.
An open truck loaded with watermelons was sweeping downriver making a spray of water on each side like a thousand legs and a wake behind like that left on a still pond by a giant waterbug.
It had grown worse as darkness flowed like slime between the ten thousand legs supporting DownTown.