Definition of "legged"

The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.

1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels.

1948, American Antiquity - Volumes 13-14, page 111

DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities

1987, Army Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A 1987 Review, page 10

Beginning with his hopping robots at the MIT Leg Lab (Raibert, 1986), Marc Raibert has advanced the state of the art in legged robot control for practical application.

2011, Paul Muench, Efficiency and Speed in Legged Robotics, page 6

Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged!

1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 61