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plural ankles
The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint. examples
third-person singular simple present ankles, present participle ankling, simple past and past participle ankled
(slang) To walk. quotations
Arvay’s tearful speech followed the usual pattern, and everybody said it was just fine. There had been nothing about the heathens of China, India and Africa wallowing around on the heavenly chairs, nor ankling up and down the golden streets.
1948, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 1, in Seraph on the Suwanee, New York: HarperPerennial, published 1991, page 5
Supposing we all ankled over to the huts […]
1951, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings’ Little Hut, London: Collins, 1973, Chapter 15, p. 178
He ankled round, accordingly, to her house and his ring at the bell was answered by Wilberforce, her butler […]
1966, P. G. Wodehouse, Plum Pie, London: Everyman, 2007, Chapter 6, p. 158
After a while he got up and ankled his way down the corridor and met Penny coming out of the toilet.
2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 275
(cycling) To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution. examples