leg

Insects have six legs.

A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.

Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.

In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.

(anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.

The left leg of these jeans has a tear.

A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.

the legs of a chair or table

A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.

This observation is an important leg of my argument.

After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.

(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.

(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.

A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.

2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:

(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.

(geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.

(geometry) One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle.

(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.

This proposal has no legs. Almost everyone opposes it.

I’m trying to go with my head and focus on the first guy, because this could be a relationship with legs.

2020 February 2, “One is a great guy; the other is good in bed. So who do I choose?”, in The Guardian:

(usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.

(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

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.

In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping drive through the leg fielders.

(cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.

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

(electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.

(finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.

Which was lower than whale shit in the eyes of any paratrooper; it would have been a disgrace to be a leg.

2019, Elliot Murphy, A Vietnam Story, page 94:

(US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.

Hickman came in, making his legs, and stroking his cravat and ruffles.

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:

(archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.

A leg is one column of a story. It has two legs if it is set in two columns and three legs if it is set in three columns. Avoid legs longer than 10 inches and shorter than 1 inch.

2015, Homer L. Hall, Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy, page 266:

(journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.

The street was deserted. We acted quickly. Josiah gave me a leg. I threw my jacket over the broken glass […]

1902, The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 21, page 737:

Synonym of leg up (“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”)

leg up

If one leg from your 2-way parlay pushes and the other wins, your parlay bet wins and is paid off as if it's a straight bet (paying -110 or whatever the odds were).

2020, Swain Scheps, Sports Betting For Dummies, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 265:

(gambling) An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).

piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining

→ Finnish: legi

→ Hungarian: leg

eka

portion of the lower appendage from knee to ankle

poot

supporting protrusion of an inanimate object

legi

(nautical) distance done without changing the sails from one side to the other

legi

(nautical) side of a route in a sailing race

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”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).


leg

To remove the legs from an animal carcass.

To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.

To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.

To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').

en-verb

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

legs (present singular third-person)
legging (participle present)
legged (participle past)
legged (past)