What is "three-legged"

Usage examples of "three-legged".

Of all people, Mistress Anan, who had once owned the inn where he stayed in Ebou Dar, was sitting on one of the three-legged stools reading a book.

The three-legged man was a tall, meek-looking person, who had bedizened himself with gorgeous garments, a great feather, and a sword so long and broad, that it differed little in size from the very thin and stiff shanks between which it wandered uncomfortably.

He was not seen in the region of the Misty Mountain for a long time but in the lowveld, in the Letsitele Valley and further to the south, legends grew about the three-legged bushpig.

She had not been trying to warn him of the approach of the thirst-driven three-legged strider, but of what lay in wait beneath the sorely needed yet deceptive water they both sought.

It reminded Norton of nothing so much as a three-legged spider, or daddy-long-legs, and he wondered how it had solved the problemnever challenged by any creature on Earthof tripedal locomotion.

Jupiter, kind of like trunkless, three-legged elephants, though in our drawings they looked more like well-upholstered footstools.

Sometimes the formation would break and banners were unshouldered while the thirsty and exhausted sat round three-legged pots over picnic fires.

When the mother feels the fulness of time at hand, the priestess of Lucina, the midwife, is duly summoned, and she comes bearing in her hand a tripod, better known as a three-legged stool, the uses of which are only revealed to the initiated.

She threw herself into the festivities, joining Milos in a ringtoss competition and watching the fathers and sons run three-legged races.

A washstand completed the furnishings, except for a three-legged stool, onto which Katerine promptly lowered herself, adjusting her skirts as though on a throne.

They advanced many incredible claims, such as the ability to stroll between Manchester and London in a few steps, the existence of an intermediate stop with mountains that meet overhead, and the huge moon and tides of Marn -- not to speak of its three-legged natives.

Lord of the Titans sat in a high-backed armchair, a golden, three-legged tabte-sWithin easy reach of his right hand.

In fact, for two years hand-running, almost daily, and in spite of the three-legged shepherd's fang-baring snarls, Bernabe" had been ticketing Onofre's perambulating junk heap.

The best time for a Sighting seems to be at around Sunset, just as the Axmen are leaving off work and heading for the Mess Tent, the Wind changing, here in Pennsylvania, as between this World and the Next, when one may catch him flitting across the Visto behind the Party, back at the edge of Visibility, black Cloak, white Wig, black Hat, white Stock, black Breeches and so forth, on foot, carrying a three-legged Staff, with an Instrument of some kind affix'd.

The furniture consisted chiefly of two charpoys, three tabourets, an old divan quite innocent of cushions, a broken punkah, a three-legged chair and a dilapidated rug.