scaly legs

noun

A poultry disease affecting the legs.

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Meanings

nounscaly legs (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA poultry disease affecting the legs.

    Uncle Jobson was in the fowlhouse, treating with kerosene that infirmity common to poultry known as "scaly legs"'.

    1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 136
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