Strong-limbed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a long-limbed dancer. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the lower limbs; artificial limbs. ,the four limbs of a cross. ,a limb of the central committee. From Dictionary.com.
It was four-limbed, its body silvery -- and it was large. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
She saw him standing in front of her, long-limbed, erect of mien. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
But the gaunt-limbed trees did not bow before this strange blast. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film] Reference
Does any weak-limbed country-liver resent this honesty of speech?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Fine, big fellows they were, too; loose-limbed and strong featured. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Many a weak-limbed child has grown up a strong, healthy man or woman. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Bulldozers lifted splayed-limbed victims out of heaps and heaps of mud. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Schrei: The Ladakh Cloudburst: An Eyewitness Account] Reference
These horses are clean-limbed, close-coupled and wonderfully docile and obedient. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
He writhed and twisted like a limbed snake, and bit and tore with teeth and hands. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Still, I had to ask where the many-limbed celebration was born, and the answer was jarring. From Wordnik.com. [LaRon Landry's barbershop celebration] Reference
"You want a loose limbed horse that has a large backside, with plenty of power," he explains. From Wordnik.com. [Finding the Next Winner] Reference
George Mullholland stands some five feet nine, is wiry-limbed, and slender and erect of person. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
They were not human, they were only four-limbed, and walked -- or hopped -- in an erect position. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
One night he caught a great-limbed Turk making off with a firkin of butter and some other things. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
The son of Thunder was little like his sire, but a slender-limbed racer, graceful, nervous, eager. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
Her left hand was clasped by that of a child: a tiny, shadowy shape, sweet-faced and slender-limbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Clark's work has always trodden a line between formal classical dance and something more loose-limbed. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Clark steps it up at Tate Modern] Reference
There were no more houses, but great, sweeping-limbed willow trees shaded the lower range of the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
He lost his chubbiness and his pink prettiness and became thin and wiry, brown faced and brown limbed. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
A huge metal representation of a tree, limbed, broken and uprooted lay in the midst of a stony parking lot. From Wordnik.com. [The Scene In Kandahar] Reference
Kids who are loose-limbed or have recurring injuries also need to take some precautions with weight training. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Push-Ups] Reference
There was but one thing to do -- to take to the trees; and it was well that the trees near by were low limbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
Large-limbed she was, the shape of a boy, with a long mouth and small eyes, full-lipped, big in foot and hand. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The trees were bare-limbed but with a haze clothing them in the distance that seemed almost that of returning verdure. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
It is midafternoon when I arrive home, the sun slanting through the bare-limbed winter trees, already close to setting. From Wordnik.com. [Numb] Reference
John, as the tallest and straightest-backed and sturdiest-limbed pupil in the school, was always at the head of one line. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Mr. Randolph's impossibly long-limbed frame has a certain Inspector Gadget quality, which used to be even more pronounced. From Wordnik.com. [He's Long, Lean, Unlimited] Reference
I could easily imagine what a beauty my spaniel would be, clean-limbed and alert like the ones in the coloured lithographs. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
There are about 1500 lesser trees, low-limbed trees which will eventually be used, perhaps, for posts or some such purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
LEMUR IIA -- a limbed robot built for in-space assembly and inspection that looks remarkably familiar (pictured above, left). From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
This is the company I keep: long-limbed, tree-climbing ankle-biters, sugary sons and dangerous daughters of the fruit canners. From Wordnik.com. [forestry] Reference
Elsie and Duncan were big-limbed, ruddy-cheeked children, with high cheek-bones, fair-skinned, but well freckled and tanned by the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
It is probable that the pirates gained a rich reward for the clean-limbed boy, whose strength and ability were evident to all who saw him. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
At Templemore George Borrow, tall and large-limbed for a lad of thirteen, still had adventures; for on an excursion to visit his brother at. From Wordnik.com. [Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913] Reference
Children, for the most part sturdy-limbed and well-developed, swarmed in the road, women in a more or less dishevelled condition stared out of open doors at them as they passed. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
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