Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the toes turned in or inward.

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Examples

  • Once the long in-toed track of a bear lay marked in the soft earth before them, and once Amos picked a great horn from amid the bushes which some moose had shed the month before.

    The Refugees Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Some small spotted deer, a curious wild pig known, I believe, as a peccary, a gorgeously feathered oriole, some sort of armadillo, and a singular lumbering in-toed beast like a very fat badger, were among the creatures which I observed as we drove along the winding avenue.

    Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • The only obvious defects were in his walk, which was Indian, or in-toed and bending at the knee; but, to counterbalance these, his movements were light, springy and swift.

    Satanstoe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • “One moccasin like another! you may as well say that one foot is like another; though we all know, that some are long, and others short; some broad, and others narrow; some with high, and some with low, insteps; some in-toed, and some out!

    The Last of the Mohicans 1826

  • "One moccasin like another! you may as well say that one foot is like another; though we all know that some are long, and others short; some broad, and others narrow; some with high, and some with low insteps; some in-toed, and some out.

    The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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