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