leg
noun
[ lɛɡ ]
• each of the limbs on which a person or animal walks and stands.
• "Adams broke his leg"
• each of the supports of a chair, table, or other structure.
• "table legs"
• a section or stage of a journey or process.
• "the return leg of his journey"
Similar:
part,
stage,
portion,
segment,
section,
bit,
phase,
stretch,
lap,
step,
instalment,
passage,
subdivision,
subsection,
juncture,
• a branch of a forked object.
• the half of the field (as divided lengthways through the pitch) away from which the batsman's feet are pointed when standing to receive the ball.
• "he played a lucky stroke to leg"
• a deferential gesture made by drawing back one leg and bending it while keeping the front leg straight.
leg
verb
• travel by foot; walk.
• "I am part of a team legging it around London"
Similar:
walk,
march,
tramp,
trek,
trudge,
plod,
wander,
ramble,
go on foot,
go on Shanks's pony,
• propel (a boat) through a tunnel on a canal by pushing with one's legs against the tunnel roof or sides.
• "a little boy was lying on his back, legging the boat along"
Origin:
Middle English (superseding shank): from Old Norse leggr (compare with Danish læg ‘calf (of the leg)’), of Germanic origin.
