leg

Definitions

• A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.
• 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.
• A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
• A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
• (figurative) Something that supports.
• A stage of a journey, race etc.
• (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.
• (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 branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
• (usually used in plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
• (UK) 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.
• (cricket) 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.
• (US) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
• (now) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg (make a leg).