leg

Meaning

Noun

1. A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
2. In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
3. The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
4. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
5. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
6. (figuratively) Something that supports.
7. A stage of a journey, race etc.
8. A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
9. One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
10. A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
11. One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
12. One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle.
13. One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
14. (plural-normally) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
15. (UK, archaic, slang) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
16. 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.
17. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
18. (attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
19. A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
20. A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
21. An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
22. (US, slang) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
23. (archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
24. A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
25. Synonym of leg up (“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”).
26. An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).

Verb

1. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
2. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
3. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
4. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').

Adj

Alternative spelling of leg..

Opposite of

off

Synonyms

foot

🦶

thigh

shank

lower leg

shin

paw

stage

branch

calf

limb

base

peg

lower

stem

lower limb

stick

support

wooden leg

foundation

pegleg

front leg

feet

🐾

upper leg

wheel

🛞

stalk

side

staff

segment

prop

pillar

ramification

hind leg

bypass

pedestal

section

tibia

cathetus

pin

fork

footstep

bridge

flank

branch line

bough

fishing rod

branching

pad

feeder road

obeisance

moiety

Translations

jambe

🦵

pierna

🦵

gamba

🦵

Bein

perna

🦵

been

🦵

patte

πόδι

pata

cama

🦵

bacak

🦵

pied

🦶

poot

coscia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɛɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: leg

Cognate with Scots: leg

Cognate with Icelandic: leggur

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: legg

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: legg

Cognate with Swedish: lägg

Cognate with Danish: læg

Cognate with Langobardic: lagi

Cognate with Latin: lacertus

Cognate with Persian: لنگ

In summary

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).