What is "splayfooted"

Usage examples of "splayfooted".

Four splayfooted legs surrounded a rocket motor with a pressurized cabin on top.

Amber said, pointing toward a large splayfooted sphere with four exhaust nozzles clustered around its base.

He was halfway to the building, running splayfooted, arms making ragged pinwheels at his sides.

They walked slightly bent forward, their feet appearing to have something of the same splayfooted design of seagull feet except without any webbing between the toes.

It was Barlow, the man-of-all-work, who killed and plucked the poultry, peeled the potatoes and picked the peas, pulled the sweet-corn and the tomatoes, kindled the kitchen fire, harnessed the old splayfooted mare, --safe for ladies and children, and intolerable for all others, which formed the entire stud of the Jocelyn House stables,--dug the clams, rowed and sailed the boat, looked after the bath-houses, and came in contact with the guests at so many points that he was on easy terms with them all.

The homeless people in cities pushing shopping carts, with their splayfooted, third-trimester walks: I saw no need to be manacled to my past, weighed down by it, when I had so little left.

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.

Big, shaggy, overweight fifty-three-year-old guy in a blue jogging suit with white piping on it, running splayfooted and puffing like a Clydesdale.

She wore old jeans, a flannel shirt, pink tennis shoes, and walked splayfooted like a teenage girl.

No, it was Robert the hunchback, the splayfooted Little Elf, who was the genius.

It was splayfooted with broad, webbed feet, and its body was colored in various shades of brown as if streaked by dirt.

Perhaps they were made by monstrous, splayfooted humans, or bears with terrible cunning.

The fact that giant, splayfooted ones did now might threaten the entire holt.