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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowleg

Bowleg \Bow"leg`\, n. A crooked leg.
--Jer. Taylor.

Wiktionary
bowleg

n. A leg that curves outward at the knee. It might refer to the leg of a human, animal or even a piece of furniture. For humans this deformity is formally called genu varum.

WordNet
bowleg

adj. have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowlegged]

bowleg

n. a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) [syn: genu varum, tibia vara]

Usage examples of "bowleg".

Hilly Bowlegs, looking up from the cedar arrow on which he was working.

It was all done in a moment, and in another instant Sam had brought Billy Bowlegs to his senses, by quietly leading him away and saying.

Then he waked Billy Bowlegs, and, surrendering the paddle to him, went to sleep.

If we wait, Captain Kambanaros, for the shiploads you demand to be landed and for the Bear to set his bowlegs in motion and bring us help from the north, we shall never free ourselves.

He had four powerful arms, and his stocky bowlegs ended in prehensile-toed feet which could serve as hands.

I chatted to Bowlegs and he scratched his chin and wrote a few smudged figures on an invoice while his young assistant filled the gas tanks and money changed hands.

Finally they got to Billy Bowlegs, who had started out with Chekaika on the Calusa Hatchee.

Roach, the Chicago railroad man who has taken such a liking to him, is very interested in what Walter tells him about possibilities for citrus farming out at Deep Lake Hammock, where Billy Bowlegs had his gardens in the Indian Wars.

Fort Myers that Chief Billy Bowlegs surrendered up his warriors and took ship for Wewoka, Oklahoma!

With the wind at their backs, their scent was going straight toward the rocks, and the Tartar was making unnecessary amounts of noise, breathing heavily and brushing the bushes with his bowlegged gait.

And woe to him if Efendina or any bowlegged, squinting or halfwitted creature came by!

Malink led them into the village, his bowlegged gait more wobbly than normal.

He turned and walked and fell into a light bowlegged amble down the path.

Standing upright, bowlegged, body covered with rough fur of indefinite color.

A runty, bowlegged man with a short grizzled beard emerged, carrying a mess of dirty linens and a bucket with a closed lid.