Definition of "dog-legged" []

• Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole. (adjective)

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

• "It was only about a ten minute walk away from the video shop down narrow, unevenly paved laneways and dog-legged streets."
• "Clearly these were railroad flats with front-to-back corridors that dog-legged halfway along their lengths to accommodate the entrances."
• "It dog-legged, or dog stumped might be closer, cut off shortly after the point where it turned."