meaning of leg

1. A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp. , that part of the limb between the knee and foot.
2.
That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.
3.
The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
4.
A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
5.
A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
6.
The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
7.
An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also water leg.
8.
The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
9.
A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
10.
To use as a leg, with it as object
11.
To bow.
12.
To run.
13.
a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean ">cruise"


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