knee-deep : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: knee-deep	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for knee-deep
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
knee-deep adv up to the knees; "we were standing knee-deep in the water" Synonym(s): knee-deep, knee-high adj coming only to the ankle or knee [syn: ankle-deep, knee-deep]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Knee-deep \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.