Definition of "long-shanked" [long-shanked]

• Having long legs. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Trouble is, most people use regular, long-shanked worm hooks, which are too big and aren't weedless."
• "Uladeslaus Cubitalis that pigmy king of Poland reigned and fought more victorious battles than any of his long-shanked predecessors."
• "Or a long-shanked baby of her very own for a girl who was a little too old for a child's dolls, Bradamant thought, and not quite old enough to marry."