a. [f. SPINDLE sb. 16.] = SPINDLE-SHANKED a.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 148, ¶ 2. Many great families … are dwindled away into a pale, sickly, spindle-legged generation of valetudinarians.
1860. Worcester, Spindle-legs,… a spindle-legged person.
1863. Miss Braddon, J. Marchmont’s Legacy, i. It seemed as if the spindle-legged chairs and tables had grown attenuated … by much service.
