Knee"-deep` (?), a.

1.

Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.

Grass knee-deep within a month. Milton.

2.

Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water.

Where knee-deep the trees were standing. Longfellow.

 

© Webster 1913.

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