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white leg

British  

noun

  1. another name for milk leg

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One of them, near Jacob, lured by the tempting plumpness, put out a long, red tongue, and gave a furtive lick to his fat white leg.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

It was a bay with a white leg, and I knew that Cockeye used to ride such a horse, and that there wasn't a better in the colony.

From A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

It was red-brown, with a round curly pate and one white leg.

From Adventures in Contentment by Grayson, David

“Hang the scoundrels!” he cried; “anyone would think they had never seen an old man’s white leg before.”

From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by Schonberg, John

Jamie carefully laid the little white leg away in his box of playthings, and then both children went back to the window to watch the drops again.

From The Right Knock A Story by Van-Anderson, Helen