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Meaning of WING-FOOTED

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Wing"-foot`ed\, a.
1. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed
   Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
   --Drayton.

2. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.
   (b) Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as
       to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of
       the pteropod mollusks.

 

 

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