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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/#m1)

2) «Leg it» (legged it) is informal British for running away fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/#x1)
- Insects are six-legged creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/#x2)
- We ran a three-legged race on sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/#x3)
- Sit cross-legged on the carpet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/#x4)
- A long-legged heron stood in the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/#x5)
- The thief legged it down the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/#x6)
- And send off the long-legged man with the letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents/1/)
- [The first four-legged animals crawled out of the water about 375 million years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/58-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life/15/)
- [Count the four-legged animals together, then the two-legged ones, and add the two counts of legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/205-legs-on-a-mixed-farm/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «legged» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legged/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.