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▸ noun: In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
▸ noun: (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
▸ noun: A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
▸ noun: A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
▸ noun: (figurative) Something that supports.
▸ noun: A stage of a journey, race etc.
▸ noun: (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
▸ noun: (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
▸ noun: (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
▸ noun: (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
▸ noun: (geometry) One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle.
▸ noun: (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
▸ noun: (usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
▸ noun: (UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
▸ noun: (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
▸ noun: (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
▸ noun: (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
▸ noun: (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
▸ noun: (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
▸ noun: (archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
▸ noun: (journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
▸ noun: Synonym of leg up (“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”)
▸ noun: (gambling) An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).
▸ verb: To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
▸ verb: To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
▸ verb: To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
▸ verb: To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
▸ noun: Alternative spelling of leg.
▸ adjective: Alternative spelling of leg.
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