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Leg

noun

A human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle.

A structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion.

One of the supports for a piece of furniture.

A part of a forked or branching shape. Synonyms: branch, ramification.

The limb of an animal used for food.

A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg. Synonyms: peg, pegleg, wooden leg.

A cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg.

(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack.

A section or portion of a journey or course. Synonym: stage.

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"Leg" Quotes from Famous Books

... came back to me. I wondered if my back was all right and felt carefully down the side. No, there was no bandage, and I sighed with relief, though it ached like fury. I could feel the top of the wooden splints on the one leg but nothing but bandages on ...

— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp

... with his time than spend six months of it in a workshop. When medical training emerges from its medieval traditions, manual training will certainly form a part, and no one will be allowed to attempt to mend a bone till he has shown his capacity to mend a chair-leg. Here, again, the surgeon was surrounded by all the appliances, and even the luxuries, that he could desire. The lot of the great surgeon abroad is indeed a ...

— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar

... the flying fragments killed or wounded sixteen men. The force of the explosion shattered the forecastle deck. Commodore Rodgers was thrown high into the air, and, falling heavily on the deck, suffered a painful fracture of the leg. The crew was at once thrown into confusion and almost panic. Every gun was looked upon with suspicion. Encouraged by this confusion, the enemy worked his stern guns with renewed vigor, and at the same time lightened his ship by cutting ...

— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 1 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot

... before they were married. In Swaziland, until quite recently, unmarried women and very often matrons went stark naked. Even amongst the prudish Baganda, who made it a punishable offense for a man to expose any part of his leg above the knee, the wives of the King would attend at his Court perfectly naked. Among the Kavirondo, all unmarried girls are completely nude, and although women who have become mothers are supposed to wear a tiny covering before and behind, they very often completely ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... May.—Sudden orders to move off at 2 p.m., so all is rush and hurry. I rode once more at the head of my guns, and all went well with us except that one of the poor oxen broke a hind leg in the trek chains down a steep bit of road and had to be left behind and shot. For four hours after this our long line of march was stuck in a drift, but at last, at 11 p.m., we got over it and at 1 a.m. bivouacked ...

— With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) - Journal of Active Service • Charles Richard Newdigate Burne

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