"spindleshanks" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1918, Clarence Budington Kelland, Harper's Magazine - Volume 136:",
          "text": "“If I chose,” said she, “to remain a spinster, is that any reason why every bespectacled spindleshanks sitting under an outrageous sign should remark upon it?” “Spindleshanks?” said I. “Am I to understand that you refer to me as Spindleshanks?\" \"You are,\" she said, shortly. “I may not,” said I, with dignity, “have the lower extremities of a Grecian athlete in marble, but I assure you that, such as they are, my limbs are ample for my proportions.",
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        "A thin, lanky person with long legs."
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        "(archaic, derogatory) A thin, lanky person with long legs."
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