half-legadj.
U.S.
Half the height of a man's leg. In phr. half-leg deep, half-leg high.
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1752 J. Hempstead Diary 5 Dec. (1998) 584 A great Snow knee Deep..Last night & ys morning half Leg Deep & more.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 112 Natty, makin' his way, through the bushes, half-leg deep.
1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. i. 13 The snow was lying about half-leg deep.
1852 G. N. Jones Florida Plantation Rec. (1927) 65, I have a little corn half leg high.
1855 G. N. Jones Florida Plantation Rec. (1927) 133 The spring branch newground [is] knee high, spring branch cut half leg.
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