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Web-footed   Listen
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Web-footed  adj.  Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Web-footed" Quotes from Famous Books



... in which deposits of salt are being now produced on the world's surface, in preparation for that man of the future who, as we learn from a duly constituted authority, is to be hairless, toothless, web-footed, and far too respectable ever to be funny. Man of the present derives his existing salt-supply chiefly from beds of rock-salt similarly laid down against his expected appearance some hundred thousand aeons or so ago. (An aeon is a very ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... and away they went for the bare life. Never was there seen such running as that day—the cat made for a shaking bog, the loneliest place in the whole country, and there the riders were all thrown out, barrin' the huntsman, who had a web-footed horse on purpose for soft places; and the priest, whose horse could go anywhere by reason of the priest's blessing; and, sure enough, the huntsman and his riverence stuck to the hunt like wax; and just as the cat got on the border of the bog, they ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover



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