n.
- 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.
- a long, thin support or prop, especially of a chair or table.
- 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.
- a branch of a forked object.
-
(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.
- archaic an obeisance made by drawing back one leg and bending it while keeping the front leg straight.
v.
(legs, legging, legged)
-
(leg it)
Brit. informal travel by foot; walk.
▸run away.
- chiefly historical propel (a boat) through a canal tunnel by pushing with one's legs against the tunnel roof or sides.
Phrase
- 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.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from ON leggr, of Gmc origin.