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- noun Plural form of
uniped .
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Examples
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In his anteroom were unipeds in different stages of their second learning to walk as lignipeds.
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A squinting eye is a treasure to a boxer, a left-handed batter is a prize in a cricketing eleven, and one of the best gymnasts in Chicago is an individual with a wooden leg, which he takes off at the commencement of affairs, thus economizing weight and stowage, and performing achievements impossible except to unipeds.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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The mediaeval belief in a country in which there lived a race of unipeds was not unknown in
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884
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Because unipeds can be athletes, too (even those of us who suspected our sporty days were long past).
pilgrimsteps 2009
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