Definition of Leg

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Definition of Leg

Leg

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.

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.

The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.

A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.

A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.

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.

The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

To use as a leg, with it as object

To bow.

To run.

Either side of a triangle of a triangle as distinguished from the base or, in a right triangle, from the hypotenuse; also, an indefinitely extending branch of a curve, as of a hyperbola.

A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.

A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.

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Leg Quotations

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Henry Ford

How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?
Steve Prefontaine

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny Youngman

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
Lyndon B. Johnson

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
Elvis Presley

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.
Gene Simmons

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
Ani DiFranco

Leg Translations

leg in Afrikaans is been, poot
leg in Danish is ben
leg in Dutch is been
leg in French is jambe, patte
leg in German is Bein, Programmzweig
leg in Italian is gamba, zampa
leg in Latin is crur; cruris
leg in Spanish is pierna
leg in Swedish is ben

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