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Definition of dog-leg in English: dog-legnoun 1A thing that bends sharply, in particular a sharp bend in a road or route. （尤指道路或路线）急转弯的；极度弯曲的 as modifier they took us through a dog-leg cave Example sentencesExamples - Alas, the dog-leg bolt handle has been replaced, and the Model Seven's bottom metal is steel not plastic.
- Castle Street's dog-leg bend will be straightened out to meet with Caroline Street and the resulting redundant area will then be turned into parking bays for future residents.
- Gurney moved the kitchen out of a dogleg at the back of the house and into the middle of the first floor, and he relocated the front stairwell into the dogleg.
- Equally effective is the varied treatment of the stairwells between office wings and spine: one is a spiral, the second has two skewed flights, the third is a dogleg.
- Right when the thing started to take off, I ran over something with the right front, going through the dogleg.
- A dramatic dog-leg external ramp linking the ground and first floor levels runs across the glazed west wall of the drawing room.
- I suppose the moral of this story is that we need to learn how to navigate in dog-legs around such obstacles.
- After the 2003 IndyCar Series race, officials at Phoenix International Raceway extended the Turn 2 wall outward, making the dogleg on the backstretch less pronounced.
- There's a dog-leg in the house at the north end, forming a quiet place the wind doesn't bother with and, sure enough, there they all were.
- The only difference is a dogleg to the west along the Musselshell River then north to Lewistown as opposed to a straight line between Roundup and Lewistown.
- The route continues across open ground to reach a small stand of conifers before the northern tip of the reservoir and its dog-leg shape.
- The main arm that holds the glider now has a 45 degree dog-leg, which allows us to keep the arm further away from the face of the person trying the simulator.
- The creek pulled a dog-leg bend around the point of land where the rock stood, and the fly-caster was out of sight behind the heavy brush.
- On its initial try, the plane was unable to get airborne after a long run of five or six miles over the dog-leg course curving around the two bays.
- Where the ramps angle, holes are created that allow light to pass through the house from a skylight that matches the shape, dimension, and positioning of the ramp doglegs.
- There's a lot of room on the exit of Turn 2, especially since they moved the wall out, so you can pick the back straightaway through the doglegs.
- The fighter escort was informed that we were at our rendezvous point and that we would do a navigational dogleg to allow them to catch up to us.
- That darn dog-leg shape of the State is the real source of our financial woes.
- We flew a descending, slowing figure eight to an uphill sloping runway, with tall trees at the approach end and a dogleg to the right.
- An intimate tangle of dog-leg lanes led me on, to find the Priuli Fountain squeezed between a modern block of flats and a tottery old house with an overhanging Turkish upper storey.
Synonyms bend, corner, angle, crook, twist, turn, curve, loop, zigzag - 1.1Golf A hole where the fairway has a bend.
〔高尔夫〕狗腿穴 as modifier this hole is a dog-leg par-4 with a water hazard on the right Example sentencesExamples - Mrs Wilson added: ‘Even though it is a short course it has a bit of a dog-leg.’
- Greed on the 7th means whipping the biggest stick from your bag and cutting the backside off the dog-leg; get it right and it might be birdie-time but get it wrong…
- She atoned for the lapse with a winning par five at the dog-leg sixth but two holes later Caroline levelled only to trail again after bogeying the 10th.
- He'd blown a three-shot lead after cutting his second at the around-the-corner eighth into the bush which guards the elbow of this dog-leg.
- One of Augusta's flagship holes, the dog-leg par-five 13th, has undergone the smallest change.
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