legged

[ leg-id, legd ]

adjective

1. having a specified number or kind of legs (often used in combination):

   two-legged; long-legged.

2. fitted with legs:

   a legged desk.

legged

/ ˈlɛɡɪd; lɛɡd /

adjective

1. 1. having a leg or legs
   2. ( in combination )

      three-legged

      long-legged

Word History and Origins

Origin of legged¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; leg, -ed ³

Example Sentences

Astley and others are interested in building snakelike robots to navigate where wheeled or legged robots can’t go.

From Science News For Students

And, like every animal — including the two-legged kind — he’s unique unto himself.

From Washington Post

Build a three-legged stoolYou probably don’t think you need a three-legged stool in your life, but you do.

From Popular-Science

In a paper in Science Robotics, they explain how this allows a four-legged robot to improvise new skills and adapt to unfamiliar challenges in real time.

From Singularity Hub 

The legged robots are built to remain balanced as they maneuver through rocky trails, up and down staircases or through narrow passages.

From Washington Post

Sitting up there at that little spindly-legged organ, he looked enormous, bigger than life, like a gorilla at a harpsichord.

From The Daily Beast

I often sit on the floor and work cross-legged with my laptop.

From The Daily Beast

And humility, well, that's about as useful as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest.

From The Daily Beast

In the distance I spotted banners on buildings and a pair of one-legged fishermen balancing with large cone-shaped nets.

From The Daily Beast

At eight o'clock the team filed out to warm up, Sawchuck leading, wide-legged in his goalie pads, and Howe last.

From The Daily Beast

There was one honest dog in that company, but the two-legged specimen was a little "too sweet to be wholesome."

From Project Gutenberg

She wore soiled Burberry, high-legged tan boots, and a peaked cap of distinctly military appearance.

From Project Gutenberg

The children like to see their father and Frank sit on their three-legged stools in the stalls and milk the cows.

From Project Gutenberg

This is that he is a long-legged and short-armed animal, a condition the reverse of that seen in the anthropoid apes.

From Project Gutenberg

"No," she exclaimed with dainty aplomb to the man who sat cross-legged in muslin draperies on the table.

From Project Gutenberg