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Leg

noun

A human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle.

A structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion.

One of the supports for a piece of furniture.

A part of a forked or branching shape. Synonyms: branch, ramification.

The limb of an animal used for food.

A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg. Synonyms: peg, pegleg, wooden leg.

A cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg.

(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack.

A section or portion of a journey or course. Synonym: stage.

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"Leg" Quotes from Famous Books

... explained the visitor. "Runnin' around in the coop. I can tell if a chicken has got any disease that my trade wouldn't like, if I see it runnin' around in the coop. There's a lot in the way a chicken runs. In the way it h'ists up its leg, for instance. That's what the trade calls 'on the hoof.' So I'll just go out and have a ...

— The Thin Santa Claus - The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking • Ellis Parker Butler

... three shrill pipes, and "All hands up anchor" was thrice repeated forward, followed by private admonitions, "Rouse and bitt!" "Show a leg!" etc., and up tumbled the crew with "homeward bound" written on their ...

— Great Sea Stories • Various

... to the wall and, dragging out two chairs, he placed them in the middle of the room, back to back, about fifteen inches apart, and before his mother realized what he was doing he had climbed up and stood with one leg on ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... ends of each strap rested the two bars that proclaimed his rank of captain. Being a staff officer, Captain Wayburn wore black trousers, instead of blue, beneath his blue fatigue blouse. Moreover, the black trousers of the staff carried no broad side stripe along the leg. The side stripe is always in evidence along the outer leg side of the blue trousers of the line officer, and the color of the stripe denotes to which arm of the service the officer belongs—a white stripe denotes the infantry officer, while a yellow stripe ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock

... Mars Tom Williams swapped the women. My ma was a cook for the white folks how I come to know so much bout it all. Boys wore loose shirts till they was nine or ten years old. The shirt come to the calf of the leg. No belt. ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

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