Crossword clues for knee-deep
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knee-deep \Knee"-deep`\, a.
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Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.
Grass knee-deep within a month.
--Milton. -
Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water.
Where knee-deep the trees were standing.
--Longfellow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 reaching up to the knees. 2 submerged to the knees. 3 (context figuratively by extension English) deeply involved in something, or preoccupied with something.
WordNet
adj. coming only to the ankle or knee [syn: ankle-deep]
adv. up to the knees; "we were standing knee-deep in the water" [syn: knee-high]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "knee-deep".
As clearly as if he stood before him, he could see the Baptist knee-deep in the water, and he could hear his voice as if for the first time.
The ekka wheels stuck between stones in a ford, and Ommony waited while driver and priest got down knee-deep in the muddy stream to lift the wheel clear.
Stoke had said to him as they trudged through knee-deep snow from the Zum Wilden Hund out to the black chopper on the pad.
When the dinghy was afloat, its flat stern toward the shore, Lamar stood knee-deep in the water, holding the gunwales and looking around us, and I helped Christopher in, also keeping an eye on the water.
I hurried to the fork and climbed up out of the knee-deep water, pausing to strike a match.
Gazing out at the fields, Brogan the miller sawin the last near-darkness of a summer nighttwenty men or more downstream from him, kneeling beside the water or knee-deep in it, drinking and filling flasks.
By alder copses sliding slow, Knee-deep in flowers came gentler Yeo And paused awhile her locks to twine With musky hops and white woodbine, Then joined the silver-footed band, Which circled down my golden sand, By dappled park, and harbor shady, Haunt of love-lorn knight and lady, My thrice-renowned sons to greet, With rustic song and pageant meet.
He is standing knee-deep in some anguineous backwater of New Orleans swampland, feeling the mystic transport of his fellow creatures, the water witches and the Peremelfait, shrouded festively in the ghost-shapes of drowned pirates, decorated with Spanish moss and kudzu.
In the center of the clearing, in the full light of the warm morning sun, women and children knee-deep in grass gathered armfuls of yellow everlasting daisies, perfumed boronia, and rosy heath-myrtle, pushing the stems deep into the damp moss with which they had lined their baskets.
She stood in knee-deep water, a small but well-formed female with pink-nippled conical breasts and a thickening pubic thatch, incredibly only ten years old.
Nostrilamus, the once autocratic Malefica of Caledon, wheezed like an old woman as he peered into the muddy pit in which his men stood, knee-deep in icy sludge, picking fitfully at the walls of mud that rose above their heads, their rusty shovels hardly equal to the task.
They napped in meadows and stood knee-deep in frigid streams, costars in their own private dog-food commercial.
Olga and her brother knee-deep in mud and cow manure, treading a mixture to plaster their shack with, the same as the Doukhobors do.
Swiftly down a long slope they hastened, and passed over the Brithiach, walking often dryfoot upon shelves of shingle, or wading in the shoals no more than knee-deep.
Tobas pushed it out until he stood knee-deep in the surf, then grabbed the gunwhale and steadied it.