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Also see: warmer
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
leg/leɡ/
▶noun
- 1 each of the limbs on which a person or animal walks and stands.
■ a leg of an animal or bird as food.
■ a part of a garment covering a leg or part of a leg.
■ (legs) informal sustained popularity or success: some books have legs, others don't.
- 2 a long, thin support or prop, especially of a chair or table.
- 3 a section or stage of a journey or process.
■ (in sport) each of two or more games or stages constituting a round or match.
■ Sailing a run made on a single tack.
- 4 a branch of a forked object.
- 5 (also leg side) Cricket the half of the field away from which the batsman's feet are pointed when standing to receive the ball. The opposite of off (sense 1 of the noun).
- 6 archaic an obeisance made by drawing back one leg and bending it while keeping the front leg straight.
- 1 (leg it) Brit. informal travel by foot; walk.
■ run away.
- 2 chiefly historical propel (a boat) through a canal tunnel by pushing with one's legs against the tunnel roof or sides.
– phrases
feel (or find) one's legs become able to stand or walk.
get one's leg over Brit. vulgar slang (of a man) have sex.
not have a leg to stand on have no sound justification for one's arguments or actions.
on one's last legs near the end of existence or usefulness.
feel (or find) one's legs become able to stand or walk.
get one's leg over Brit. vulgar slang (of a man) have sex.
not have a leg to stand on have no sound justification for one's arguments or actions.
on one's last legs near the end of existence or usefulness.
– derivatives
-legged adjective,
-legger noun.
-legged adjective,
-legger noun.
– origin ME: from ON leggr, of Gmc origin.

