1.1treated as singularA person with long thin legs.
〈旧〉细长腿
Example sentencesExamples
The latter role is danced by Alain Honorez, a spindle-shanks of towering talents and demonic energy, who almost (but not quite) upstaged the leads with his dazzling display of movement.
Derivatives
spindle-shanked
adjective
dated, informal
The figure of Horatio Nelson, slender, one-armed, eccentric, spindle-shanked and awkward, bestrides our naval history.
Example sentencesExamples
He suffered from poor digestion, and is said to have been spindle-shanked.
A spindle-shanked figure came into view, bent against the wind.
A brown-haired, spindle-shanked human with a flowing beard of startling white scurried past piles of cargo.