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bench-legged adjective Of a dog: having the forelegs spread wide apart. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1858 (in 1974 Harris High Times 147) He squatted ontu the har trunk, spread his fore laigs wide like ontu a bench laiged fice. 1938 Hall Coll (Emerts Cove TN) = having legs like those of bulldogs, short and spread apart. 1939 Hall Coll (Proctoc NC) We had a bench-legged feist with us, that old feist, and then we had some young pups that’s getting about big enough to run.