Thesaurus: leg

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1. n. A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.
2. n. That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.
3. n. The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
4. n. A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
5. n. A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
6. n. The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
7. n. An extension of the 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.
8. n. The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
9. n. A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
10. v. t. To use as a leg, with it as object
11. v. t. To bow.
12. v. t. To run.