Definition of foreleg
: a front leg
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To see a small thin dog arrowing through the air at highway speeds, resistant to gravity, its forelegs out, its hind legs trailing, its thin proud snout straining forward, is to experience a brief moment of déjà vu.
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His 1993 feature on the subject began with a painfully detailed description of a filly named So Sly, whose left foreleg snapped in half during a race at Pimlico.
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What to do with rabbit forelegs left over from making rabbit-liver terrine and rabbit confit?
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At Thebes, in the tomb of the Valley of the Kings, He was depicted in a hieroglyph, his forelegs gently tethered By two slaves with a green monkey clinging to his neck like a child Just along for the ride.
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Holding the lead after nearly half a mile, Ruffian suddenly shattered both sesamoid bones in her right foreleg and had to be euthanized.
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Sircat Sally, who was a perfect 7-for-7 entering the race, suffered a fractured foreleg in the race and has been retired, owner Joe Turner told The Blood Horse.
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First Known Use of foreleg
15th century
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