Definition of "longlegs"

No longlegses could make me jump like them queer creatures in a drop on it, […]

1855 August 11, “Mrs. Grundy on the Alteration of Food”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 29, page 55

Thinking with animals – be it with sheep and dogs or with longlegs, moths, dumbledores, and flies – allows Hardy and his readers to reconsider what it means to be part of “the whole conscious world collectively,” […]

2017, Anna West, Thomas Hardy and Animals‎, Cambridge University Press, page 87