legged

«legged» in Mova's school dictionary: having legs, usually of a certain number or kind:… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (legged — mostly in compounds: two-legged, four-legged, long-legged)

meaning for a pupil

1) Legged means having legs, usually of a certain number or kind: four-legged, long-legged. tree →

2) «Leg it» (legged it) is informal British for running away fast. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils sort animals by number of legs: birds and humans are two-legged, dogs and cats four-legged, insects six-legged, spiders eight-legged. In stories a long-legged heron or a three-legged race at sports day. Phrases: four-legged friend, three-legged race, cross-legged, bow-legged.

examples

• A dog is a four-legged animal. tree →
• Insects are six-legged creatures. tree →
• We ran a three-legged race on sports day. tree →
• Sit cross-legged on the carpet. tree →
• A long-legged heron stood in the river. tree →
• The thief legged it down the road. tree →
• And send off the long-legged man with the letter. tree →

note

Usually joined with a hyphen to a number or describing word: «four-legged», «long-legged». Said «legd» or «LEG-id». Maths: four-legged and two-legged animals are a classic problem — count heads and legs: 5 dogs have 20 legs, 3 hens have 6 legs. «Cross-legged» means sitting with your legs crossed.

In the corpora

• He and his mate legged it (ran off) and hid behind the shed.
• The first four-legged animals crawled out of the water about 375 million years ago.
• Count the four-legged animals together, then the two-legged ones, and add the two counts of legs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «legged» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.