leg

Definitions


[lɛɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- each of the limbs on which a person or animal walks and stands
(e.g: Adams broke his leg)

- each of the supports of a chair, table, or other structure
(e.g: table legs)

- a section or stage of a journey or process
(e.g: the return leg of his journey)

- a branch of a forked object

- the half of the field (as divided lengthways through the pitch) away from which the batter's feet are pointed when standing to receive the ball
(e.g: 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


Phrases:
- feel one's legs
- get one's leg over
- have the legs of
- not have a leg to stand on
- on one's hind legs
- on one's last legs

Origin:
Middle English (superseding shank): from Old Norse leggr (compare with Danish læg ‘calf (of the leg)’), of Germanic origin


[lɛɡ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- travel by foot; walk
(e.g: I am part of a team legging it around London)

- propel (a boat) through a tunnel on a canal by pushing with one's legs against the tunnel roof or sides
(e.g: a little boy was lying on his back, legging the boat along)


Phrases:
- feel one's legs
- get one's leg over
- have the legs of
- not have a leg to stand on
- on one's hind legs
- on one's last legs

Origin:
Middle English (superseding shank): from Old Norse leggr (compare with Danish læg ‘calf (of the leg)’), of Germanic origin




definition by Oxford Dictionaries