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Definition of dogleg in US English: doglegnounPlural doglegs ˈdäɡleɡˈdɑɡlɛɡˈdɑɡlɛɡ 1A thing that bends sharply, in particular a sharp bend in a road or route. Example sentencesExamples - That darn dog-leg shape of the State is the real source of our financial woes.
- A dramatic dog-leg external ramp linking the ground and first floor levels runs across the glazed west wall of the drawing room.
- Right when the thing started to take off, I ran over something with the right front, going through the dogleg.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alas, the dog-leg bolt handle has been replaced, and the Model Seven's bottom metal is steel not plastic.
- I suppose the moral of this story is that we need to learn how to navigate in dog-legs around such obstacles.
- 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.
- 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 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms bend, corner, angle, dog-leg, crook, twist, turn, curve, loop, zigzag - 1.1Golf A hole at which the player cannot aim directly at the green from the tee.
Example sentencesExamples - A ‘Cape’ hole is a dogleg left or right where you drive over a diagonal water hazard and bite off as much as you think you can carry, or chew.
- The second hole was a long par 4, a dogleg to the right.
- Maybe the Augusta National is right about wanting to toughen up some of the par-4 holes with more length and doglegs and bunkering.
- He designed a series of bunkers, a 22-foot fill, and a lake to the right of the 13th green, which prevents cutting off the dogleg.
- This is generally a strange layout with a mixture of tough holes, easy holes, blind greens, doglegs and even a Thai favourite par 6.
adjective ˈdäɡleɡˈdɑɡlɛɡˈdɑɡlɛɡ Bent like a dog's hind leg. the surf splashes over the dogleg concrete jetty Example sentencesExamples - Extreme runways don't have to mean doglegged backcountry strips.
- He had opened with four pars, and was one over for the tournament, when he stepped up to address the doglegged hole that forms the southernmost corner of this intimidating course.
verbdoglegs, doglegged, doglegging ˈdäɡleɡˈdɑɡlɛɡˈdɑɡlɛɡ [no object]Follow a sharply bending route. Highway 60 now doglegs northwest toward Frankfort Example sentencesExamples - Go left to the field-edge path at the sewage works, then dog-leg left to the field-edge path.
- Instead, Canadian policy doglegged to the left as the prime minister claimed he could only support a war that had United Nations backing.
- Four newly acquired acres allowed the club to stretch the par-4 17th to 495 yards, uphill and blind off the tee before it doglegs downhill to a green.
- The dugout doglegs radically right, then left, then right again.
- Turn left from the car park to Station Road, and dog-leg across road to Mount Pleasant North.
- Leave the main road at the right-hand bend, dog-leg to the path ahead, then go left steep uphill to the top corner of the field.
- Go straight on by the barn and immediately turn left, go 50 yards to the gate and dog-leg right across road.
- At the bend, go straight on to the track by the cottages, and dog-leg left then right to pass the barn.
- You follow doglegging lanes in a mountain village until you're convinced you're lost, only to suddenly realize that you're right back where you started.
- Turn left at the T-junction after felled area, and 20 yards later dog-leg across the major track.
- Two or three blocks after you turn in, just past an absurd looking antique store at block's end, the road doglegs 90 degrees left while tracing the outskirts of town.
- The path dog-legs then swings left downhill towards wood.
- The hole doglegs to the left, and there is an out of bounds up the right side.
- The fairway doglegs to the left behind the trees, with the green, of course, out of sight.
- Bayonet's design reflects that tendency, with a number of holes doglegging to the left.
Definition of dogleg in US English: doglegnounˈdäɡleɡˈdɑɡlɛɡ 1A thing that bends sharply, in particular a sharp bend in a road or route. Example sentencesExamples - That darn dog-leg shape of the State is the real source of our financial woes.
- A dramatic dog-leg external ramp linking the ground and first floor levels runs across the glazed west wall of the drawing room.
- Right when the thing started to take off, I ran over something with the right front, going through the dogleg.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alas, the dog-leg bolt handle has been replaced, and the Model Seven's bottom metal is steel not plastic.
- I suppose the moral of this story is that we need to learn how to navigate in dog-legs around such obstacles.
- 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.
- 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 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms bend, corner, angle, dog-leg, crook, twist, turn, curve, loop, zigzag - 1.1Golf A hole at which the player cannot aim directly at the green from the tee.
Example sentencesExamples - A ‘Cape’ hole is a dogleg left or right where you drive over a diagonal water hazard and bite off as much as you think you can carry, or chew.
- The second hole was a long par 4, a dogleg to the right.
- Maybe the Augusta National is right about wanting to toughen up some of the par-4 holes with more length and doglegs and bunkering.
- He designed a series of bunkers, a 22-foot fill, and a lake to the right of the 13th green, which prevents cutting off the dogleg.
- This is generally a strange layout with a mixture of tough holes, easy holes, blind greens, doglegs and even a Thai favourite par 6.
adjectiveˈdäɡleɡˈdɑɡlɛɡ Bent like a dog's hind leg. the surf splashes over the dogleg concrete jetty Example sentencesExamples - Extreme runways don't have to mean doglegged backcountry strips.
- He had opened with four pars, and was one over for the tournament, when he stepped up to address the doglegged hole that forms the southernmost corner of this intimidating course.
verbˈdäɡleɡˈdɑɡlɛɡ [no object]Follow a sharply bending route. Highway 60 now doglegs northwest toward Frankfort Example sentencesExamples - Go left to the field-edge path at the sewage works, then dog-leg left to the field-edge path.
- Instead, Canadian policy doglegged to the left as the prime minister claimed he could only support a war that had United Nations backing.
- Four newly acquired acres allowed the club to stretch the par-4 17th to 495 yards, uphill and blind off the tee before it doglegs downhill to a green.
- The dugout doglegs radically right, then left, then right again.
- Turn left from the car park to Station Road, and dog-leg across road to Mount Pleasant North.
- Leave the main road at the right-hand bend, dog-leg to the path ahead, then go left steep uphill to the top corner of the field.
- Go straight on by the barn and immediately turn left, go 50 yards to the gate and dog-leg right across road.
- At the bend, go straight on to the track by the cottages, and dog-leg left then right to pass the barn.
- You follow doglegging lanes in a mountain village until you're convinced you're lost, only to suddenly realize that you're right back where you started.
- Turn left at the T-junction after felled area, and 20 yards later dog-leg across the major track.
- Two or three blocks after you turn in, just past an absurd looking antique store at block's end, the road doglegs 90 degrees left while tracing the outskirts of town.
- The path dog-legs then swings left downhill towards wood.
- The hole doglegs to the left, and there is an out of bounds up the right side.
- The fairway doglegs to the left behind the trees, with the green, of course, out of sight.
- Bayonet's design reflects that tendency, with a number of holes doglegging to the left.
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