legged

Etymology 1

From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.

adj

  1. Having legs of a certain specified type or number.
    Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.
    Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.
    The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon. 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
  2. Having legs; provided with legs.
    A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots
    Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels. 1948, American Antiquity - Volumes 13-14, page 111
    DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities 1987, Army Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A 1987 Review, page 10
    Beginning with his hopping robots at the MIT Leg Lab (Raibert, 1986), Marc Raibert has advanced the state of the art in legged robot control for practical application. 2011, Paul Muench, Efficiency and Speed in Legged Robotics, page 6
  3. Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.
    Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged! 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 61

noun

  1. (in combinations) Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs
    Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.

Etymology 2

leg (“verb”) + -ed

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of leg

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