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Knee-high   /ni-haɪ/   Listen
Knee-high

noun
1.
A sock or stocking that reaches up to just below the knees.  Synonym: knee-hi.






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"Knee-high" Quotes from Famous Books



... suddenly from the room behind us there was a stab of light. It leaped knee-high past us, out through our door across the glade—a tiny pencil-point of light so brilliantly blue-white that it stabbed through the bright sunlight unfaded. It went over Harl's head, but instantly bent down and struck upon him. There it ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... fifteenth of June, and the sun glazed down upon the dry cornfield as if it had a spite against Lincoln Stewart, who was riding a gayly painted new sulky corn-plow, guiding the shovels with his feet. The corn was about knee-high and rustled softly, almost as if whispering, not yet large enough ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various



Words linked to "Knee-high" :   stocking, knee-hi, sock



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