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Definition of Ankle-deep
1. Adjective. Coming only to the ankle or knee.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ankle-deep
Literary usage of Ankle-deep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"The dust in many places has been ankle deep. We again crossed the point of old
Lookout. I think since yesterday morning at least 20 trains loaded with ..."
2. Letters of James Smetham by James Smetham (1892)
"There is a floor of tall buttercups, hyacinths, and lilies, among which the five
figures are treading ankle deep. Coloured calm, " above all pain, ..."
3. The Magazine of Poetry by Charles Wells Moulton (1891)
"Whose trees, with tinted mantles old, Stood ankle-deep in liquid gold. Fair Nature
looked with beauty new Through eyelids wet with falling dew, ..."
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