leglike appendages. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : They legged the boat through the tunnel. From Dictionary.com.
The ridge was shaped like a giant centipede, with leglike spurs extending on each side. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Rising Sun] Reference
Like other frogfish — a subset of anglerfish — H. psychedelica has leglike fins on both sides of its body. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
She opened her mouth, jaw unhinging, the clicking, leglike rods of segmented metal reaching outwards, welcoming her brethren through her lips. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2006 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
A leglike extremity tipped by a claw larger than the halfling was reach-Ing outward from the transparent stone, heading for the Immobile cleric. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
All the officers on the bridge saw that a Promethean's large, squat body spread out like a pear, and four leglike tentacles were attached at the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [The Fearful Summons]
For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods – any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages – in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
Overhead elevated trains with a shrill grinding of the wheels stopped at the station, which upon its leglike pillars seemed to resemble some monstrous kind of crab squatting over the street. From Wordnik.com. [Men, Women, and Boats] Reference
The creamy pink worms have tiny, fleshy, almost leglike projections called parapodia, which function during movement and respiration, said Stetson Everett of Eastern Sea Worm Co. in Hancock. From Wordnik.com. [BangorDailyNews.com - News] Reference
\par The front row of attackers assumed a vaguely humanoid form \emdash extruding arm - a nd leglike limbs, gathering the bulk of their mass into a torso and lastly popping a round head out of the top of the trunk. From Wordnik.com. [Massage] Reference
Except that the little man has already lost two of Pontiki’s little leglike attachments. From Wordnik.com. [weapons of massdistraction › Small, Weird Things] Reference
Armlike, leglike members quivered and jerked. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
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