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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.