Lexic.us

Definition of Bowleg

1. Adjective. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.

2. Noun. A leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee).

Definition of Bowleg

1. n. A crooked leg.

Definition of Bowleg

1. Noun. A leg that curves outward at the knee. It might refer to the leg of a human, animal or even a piece of furniture. For humans this deformity is formally called genu varum. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bowleg

1. an outwardly curved leg [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowleg

bowl a googly bowl barrow bowl cut bowl cuts bowl of cherries bowl out bowl over bowl pack bowlder bowlderisation

bowlderised bowlders bowldery bowled bowled out bowleg (current term) bowlegged bowlegs bowler bowler-hatted

bowler hat bowlers bowless bowlful bowlfuls bowlike bowline bowline knot bowlines bowling

Literary usage of Bowleg

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgical diseases of children: A Modern Treatise on Pediatric Surgery by Samuel Walter Kelley (1914)
"... by general surgeons who are not familiar with LONG SINGLE BAR , , ?• CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FIG. 57. BOSTON bowleg BRACE. ..."

2. Plu-ri-bus-tah: A Song That's-by-no-author, a Deed Without a Name by Q. K. Philander Doesticks (1857)
"... Vengeance on them "all and several, From the burly, bowleg chieftain To the puling, bowleg baby. Thus ran her soliloquizing— (Minus all the execrations) ..."

3. Lectures on Orthopedic Surgery by John Ridlon, Hugh Owen Thomas, Robert Jones (1899)
"The adolescent bowleg is then more strictly an ... than a true bowleg. The difference in the bony deformity- between the adolescent and the infantile forms ..."

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