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Definition of Ankled
1. a. Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled.
Definition of Ankled
1. Adjective. (''in combination'') Having some specific type of ankle ¹
2. Verb. (past of ankle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ankled
1. ankle [v] - See also: ankle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ankled
Literary usage of Ankled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... sisters usually do) can favourably compare, in that respect at least, with
any of the dainty, neat-ankled, light-tripping ones of New York or Paris. ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers (1915)
"... then in anger of heart at his dear mother Althaia he tarried beside his wedded
wife, fair Kleopatra, daughter of Marpessa fair-ankled daughter of ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"Thus sang the Nymph, what time the westering enn Hade golden Etna's pyramid of
enow : Deep-bosomed, slender-ankled in the meadows, In maiden flower among ..."
4. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"And fair-ankled ... But she then, subdued in love through golden Aphrodite,
brought forth to him fair-ankled Medea. Now fare ye well, gods dwelling in ..."
5. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"... then in anger of heart at his dear mother Althaea he tarried beside his wedded
wife, fair Cleopatra, daughter of Marpessa fair-ankled daughter of ..."
6. Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1905)
"... of Ides that was strongest of men that were then upon the earth; he it was
that took the bow to face the king Phoebus Apollo for sake of the fair-ankled ..."
7. History of Australian Bushranging by Charles White (1903)
"... came out in a "blood-red" one, with I and feather, and nether pendants well
ankled; presently, o' she appeared in blue silk, with white shawl, ankled as ..."
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