The Meaning of leg

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
• (n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
• (n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
• (n.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
• (n.) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
• (v. t.) To use as a leg, with it as object
• (v. t.) To bow.
• (v. t.) To run.

Synonyms

branch , ramification , peg , wooden leg , pegleg , stage

Homophones

legg , legge

Rhymes

beg , begg , bootleg , clegg , cregg , egg , egge , gegg , greg , gregg , hegg , hegge , imreg , keg , kreg , legg , legge , meg , mpeg , neg , nutmeg , peg , pegg , reg , segue , tegge , vegh