deadleg
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I was a bit of a deadleg in them days. You know, footloose and inclined to be rather flirtatious with the ladies."
- ""I can tell you now, he's a no-good," said the Liverpool D.C.I. "His form is nothing to speak of, but he's the errand lad and head butterer-up for a deadleg called Pete Garside."
- "For the next year Liz lived alone with Lindy, occasionally consorting with 'more deadlegs', one of whom bruised Lindy when he had been drinking."
- "There should be minimum deadleg between the valve and main process unit and, if possible, means for cleaning the deadleg."
- "The pig trap was just under forty feet long, but the final six-foot section was a deadleg."
- "Since air is denser than steam at sterilization temperatures, air will be displaced downward in the deadleg."