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What does leg mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word leg? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.
  2. (anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
  3. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
  4. A stage of a journey, race etc.
  5. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
  6. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
  7. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
  8. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
  9. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
  10. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
  11. (usually used in plural) evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist
  12. (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
  13. 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.
  14. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
  15. (cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
  16. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
  17. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
  18. (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
Verb
  1. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
  2. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
  3. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
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