Meaning

Having only one leg..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having only one leg.
2. Of an audio signal: having a thin sound as a result of connection through only one wire of a circuit pair.
3. A plant, especially a tree.

Example Sentences

[…] obviously wrong termination is likely to lead to a thin 'one-legged' sound with significant loss of level, and/or distortion.

[…] you have to bear in mind that your sound files in these circumstances will have a one legged stereo recording.

In other words, people engage in communicative relationships not only with other people, but also with four-leggeds, one-leggeds, and no-leggeds, with trees, plants, and rocks, with the sun, moon, and stars, ...

We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.

The arrow, for instance, combines gifts of stone for the head (from no-leggeds, who live within the Earth), wood for the shaft (from one-leggeds, trees, who unite Earth and Sky, and resembling the bole), and feathers (from two-leggeds, who live in the Sky); the stone is its head (Thoreau called arrowheads "fossilized thoughts"), the shaft its body, the feathers its wings.

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• one-leggeds

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