Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
four-legged [fawr-leg-id, -legd, fohr-] ExamplesWord Origin adjective
- having four legs.
- Nautical. (of a schooner) having four masts.
Origin of four-legged First recorded in 1655–65 Examples from the Web for four-legged Contemporary Examples of four-legged
On one island off the coast of Japan, four-legged felines outnumber residents and are driving the tourist trade.
Cats Rule on Japan’s Tashirojima Island
Nina Strochlic
September 5, 2013
Claire Stern reports on this season’s hottest couture for four-legged friends.
FIT Hosts BARK-à-Porter: Art Deco-Themed Pet Fashion Show
Claire Stern
May 4, 2013
Four-legged PTSD is manifested in behavior like nervous exhaustion, distress, confusion, or forgetting routine commands.
My Dog Solha: From Afghanistan, With PTSD
Jessie Knadler
March 13, 2013
Many of those in China trying to protect their four-legged friends hope their battle has a wider impact.
Poisoning of CEO in Cat Stew Stirs Outrage Among Rights Activists
Dan Levin
January 6, 2012
In many places, hiring a dog trainer has become a normal, good-citizen thing to do, the four-legged equivalent of taking CPR.
Bring On the First Dog Controversies!
Michael Schaffer
April 15, 2009
Historical Examples of four-legged
That thing that draws a coach, a four-legged thing; you strike it with a whip.
Maurus Jkai
A four-legged cyclone burst from the dark depths of the linen closet.
Hugh Wiley
The firemen know how much of that is the doing of their four-legged comrades.
Jacob A. Riis
“Not unless it be a four-legged one from the dungeons beneath,” replied Surrey.
William Harrison Ainsworth
Only the four-legged animal has resources the biped does not possess.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848
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