Leg
Definition of Leg
Pronunciation: lĕg n. | 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. | (Naut.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks. | | 7. | (Steam Boiler) 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. | (Grain Elevator) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. | | 9. | (Cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter. | | 10. | (Math.) Either side of a triangle distinguished from the base or, in a right triangle, from the hypotenuse; also, an indefinitely extending branch of a curve, as of a hyperbola. | | 11. | (Telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. | | 12. | (Elec.) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.On one's last legs | See under Last. |
To have legs | (Naut.) to have speed. |
| v. t. | 1. | To use as a leg, with it as object |
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