subs. (common).—1.  The legs—especially of birds.

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  ENGLISH SYNONYMS.  Cheese-cutters (bandy legs); stumps; cabbage-stumps; pins; gams; notches; shanks; stems; stumps; clubs; marrow-bones; cat-sticks; trap-sticks; dripping sticks; trams; trespassers; pegs; knights of the garter.

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  FRENCH SYNONYMS.  Les brancards (popular, les brancards de laine = weak or lame legs); des baguettes de tambour (popular = thin legs; properly DRUMSTICKS); un bâton de tremplin (mountebanks’ = a leg; tremplin is properly a spring-board); des cotrets (popular: ‘a fagot’; jus de cotret = stirrup-oil, a ‘lathering’); des flûtes or flûtes à café (popular); des flageolets (popular); des gambettes (popular: from O. F. gambe = leg; des gambilles is of similar derivation); des fumerons (popular); des fuseaux (popular: also = a spindle or distaff); des jambes en manche de reste (popular = bandy-legs; des jambes de coq = spindle-shanks; des jambes de coton = weak legs); numéro onze (popular = Shank’s mare); des guibes, guiboles, guibolles, or guibonnes (popular and thieves’); des merlins (popular); des fourchettes (popular, literally, forks; fourchettes d’Adam = fingers); les chevaux à double semelles (popular. Cf., English Shank’s mare).

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  ITALIAN SYNONYMS.  Ramo (literally, ‘a branch’); calcha; colonna (literally, ‘a column’).

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  SPANISH SYNONYM.  Gamba (cf., O. F. Gambe).

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  1770.  FOOTE, The Lame Lover, I. What, d’ye think I would change with Bill Spindle for one of his DRUMSTICKS.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘A Lay of St. Nicholas.’

        He helped his guest to a bit of the breast,
And he sent the DRUMSTICKS down to be grilled.

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  2.  In sing. (venery).—The penis. For synonyms, see CREAMSTICK and PRICK.

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