Phonetic: "/leɪɡ/"
Part Of Speech: noun
Definition: A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.
Example: {{ux|en|Insects have six legs.}
Definition: In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
Example: Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.
Definition: The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
Definition: A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
Example: The left leg of these jeans has a tear.
Definition: A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
Example: the legs of a chair or table
Definition: Something that supports.
Example: This observation is an important leg of my argument.
Definition: A stage of a journey, race etc.
Example: After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.
Definition: A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
Definition: One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
Definition: A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
Definition: One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
Definition: One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
Definition: (usually used in plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
Example: This proposal has no legs. Almost everyone opposes it.
Definition: A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
Definition: 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.
Definition: In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
Definition: Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
Example: Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping drive through the leg fielders.
Definition: A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
Definition: A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
Definition: An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
Definition: An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
Definition: A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
