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A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.
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{{ux|en|Insects have six legs.}
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In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
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Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.
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The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
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A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
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The left leg of these jeans has a tear.
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A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
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the legs of a chair or table
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Something that supports.
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This observation is an important leg of my argument.
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A stage of a journey, race etc.
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After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.
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A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
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One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
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A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
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One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
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One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
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(usually used in plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
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This proposal has no legs. Almost everyone opposes it.
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A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
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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.
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In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
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Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
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Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping drive through the leg fielders.
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A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
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A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
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An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
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An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
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A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.