Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a long, projecting heel. See
lark-heel . - Having a long and straight hind claw, like a lark's; spur-heeled: applied to the coucals, or cuckoos of the genus Centropus.
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Examples
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Uncle Ibbetson's thick lips, wide open nostrils, and big black eyes with yellow whites -- and especially in his long, splay, lark-heeled feet, which gave both himself and the best bootmaker in London a great deal of trouble.
Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865
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His vile, dingy dun bristles stood out in all directions from his head, which was so shaped as to defy admeasurement; the little rascal's body was equally ill-made, and as for his limbs, we have already described them, as reaping-hooks of flesh and blood, terminated by a pair of lark-heeled feet, as flat as smoothing-irons.
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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