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Definition leg

Etymology 1

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (�leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk�), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (�leg, thigh�), from Proto-Indo-European *(?)lak-, *l?k- (�leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg�). Cognate with Scots leg (�leg�), Icelandic leggur (�leg, limb�), Norwegian Bokm�l legg (�leg�), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (�leg�), Swedish Swedish l�gg (�leg, shank, shaft�), Danish l�g (�leg�), Lombardic lagi (�thigh, shank, leg�), Latin lacertus (�limb, arm�), Persian ???‎ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term s?anca (Modern English shank).

Noun

leg (plural legs)

1. The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.
2. (anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
3. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
4. (figuratively) Something that supports.
5. A stage of a journey, race etc.
6. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
7. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
8. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
9. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
10. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
11. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
12. (usually used in plural) evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist
13. (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
14. An extension of a steam 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.
15. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
16. (cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
17. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
18. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
19. (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
20. (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.

Verb

leg (third-person singular simple present legs, present participle legging, simple past and past participle legged)

1. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
2. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
3. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
4. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').

Etymology 2

Noun

leg (plural not attested)

1. Abbreviation of legislature.

Adjective

leg (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of legislative.

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