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What (who) is leg - definition
RAILWAY STATION IN ST HELENS, UK
Lea Green Station; Lea Green Railway Station; LEG; Lea Green station; Lea Green
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leg
![[[Cameron de Burgh]], an Australian Paralympic swimmer, who has a prosthetic leg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/86 ACPS Atlanta 1996 Swimming General Views.jpg?width=200 "[[Cameron de Burgh]], an Australian Paralympic swimmer, who has a prosthetic leg")
![The leg of a [[woolly mammoth]] (reconstruction).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mammoth leg.png?width=200 "The leg of a [[woolly mammoth]] (reconstruction).")
WEIGHT BEARING AND LOCOMOTIVE ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE OF ANIMLAS AND HUMANS, USUALLY HAVING A COLUMNAR SHAPE, FUNCTION AS "EXTENSIBLE STRUTS"
Leg (anatomy); Pretibia; Legs
(legs)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A person or animal's legs are the long parts of their body that they use to stand on.
He was tapping his walking stick against his leg.
N-COUNT: usu poss N
• -legged
Her name was Sheila, a long-legged blonde.
...a large four-legged animal.
COMB in ADJ
2.
The legs of a pair of trousers are the parts that cover your legs.
He moved on through wet grass that soaked his trouser legs.
N-COUNT: usu pl
3.
A leg of lamb, pork, chicken, or other meat is a piece of meat that consists of the animal's or bird's leg, especially the thigh.
...a chicken leg.
...a leg of mutton.
N-COUNT: n N, N of n
4.
The legs of a table, chair, or other piece of furniture are the parts that rest on the floor and support the furniture's weight.
His ankles were tied to the legs of the chair...
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft n N, N of n
• -legged
...a three-legged stool.
COMB in ADJ
5.
A leg of a long journey is one part of it, usually between two points where you stop.
The first leg of the journey was by boat to Lake Naivasha in Kenya.
N-COUNT: usu ord N, N of n
6.
A leg of a sports competition is one of a series of games that are played to find an overall winner. (mainly BRIT)
They will televise both legs of Leeds' European Cup clash with Rangers.
N-COUNT
7.
If you say that something or someone is on their last legs, you mean that the period of time when they were successful or strong is ending. (INFORMAL)
This relationship is on its last legs.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
8.
If you are pulling someone's leg, you are teasing them by telling them something shocking or worrying as a joke. (INFORMAL)
Of course I won't tell them; I was only pulling your leg.
PHRASE: V inflects
9.
If you say that someone does not have a leg to stand on, or hasn't got a leg to stand on, you mean that a statement or claim they have made cannot be justified or proved. (INFORMAL)
It's only my word against his, I know. So I don't have a leg to stand on.
PHRASE: with brd-neg
10.
with your tail between your legs: see tail
Leg
WEIGHT BEARING AND LOCOMOTIVE ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE OF ANIMLAS AND HUMANS, USUALLY HAVING A COLUMNAR SHAPE, FUNCTION AS "EXTENSIBLE STRUTS"
Leg (anatomy); Pretibia; Legs
·vt To Bow.
II. Leg ·vt To Run.
III. Leg ·vt To use as a leg, with it as object.
IV. Leg ·noun A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
V. Leg ·add. ·noun A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
VI. Leg ·noun The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
VII. Leg ·noun The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
VIII. Leg ·noun A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
IX. Leg ·add. ·noun A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
X. Leg ·noun A bow, ·esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
XI. Leg ·noun The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
XII. Leg ·noun 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.
XIII. Leg ·noun 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.
XIV. Leg ·add. ·noun Either side of a triangle of a triangle as distinguished from the base or, in a right triangle, from the hypotenuse; also, an indefinitely extending branch of a curve, as of a hyperbola.
XV. Leg ·noun 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.
leg
WEIGHT BEARING AND LOCOMOTIVE ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE OF ANIMLAS AND HUMANS, USUALLY HAVING A COLUMNAR SHAPE, FUNCTION AS "EXTENSIBLE STRUTS"
Leg (anatomy); Pretibia; Legs
¦ 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.
6. archaic an obeisance made by drawing back one leg and bending it while keeping the front leg straight.
¦ verb (legs, legging, legged)
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.
Derivatives
-legged adjective
-legger noun
Origin
ME: from ON leggr, of Gmc origin.
Wikipedia
Lea Green railway station
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Lea Green railway station is in St Helens, Merseyside, England, three miles south of the town centre near the suburb of Clock Face. The station is on the electrified northern route of the two Liverpool to Manchester lines, 10+3⁄4 miles (17 km) east of Liverpool Lime Street. Northern Trains operates the station with Merseytravel sponsorship displaying Merseytravel signs. Constructed in 2000, the station has a park and ride car park fitted with charging points for electrically-powered vehicles, a modern CCTV security system and a booking office at street level.
Examples of use of leg
1. I‘ve lost my leg!‘ And then I kind of looked at my leg, and I noticed that my leg was, like, hanging on – my left leg.
2. When I looked, his leg actually looked bigger than the other leg.
3. I’ve been hit!» He grabbed his leg, but kept driving, feeling the leg with one hand.
4. I fell flat on the floor – a leg here, a leg there.
5. He arrived at Ichilov with one leg amputated and the other leg crushed.