Usually means: Limb used for standing, walking.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. leg: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. leg, leg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leg, leg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leg, leg: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leg: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leg, leg: Wordnik
  7. leg: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Leg, Leg, Leg, Leg, Leg, Leg: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. leg: Wiktionary
  10. leg: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. leg: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. leg: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. leg, leg: Dictionary.com
  14. leg: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. leg: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LEG (entertainment company), Leg (darts), Leg (disambiguation), Leg (film), Leg (geometry), Leg, The Leg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Leg: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. leg: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. leg: Rhymezone
  20. leg: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. leg: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. leg: Free Dictionary
  23. leg: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. leg, leg: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. leg: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. -leg, leg-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Leg: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Leg: Investopedia
  7. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  8. Leg (anatomy), Leg: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Leg (anatomy): Encyclopedia
  3. leg: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Leg: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Leg: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Leg: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. leg: Medical dictionary
  8. Leg: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Leg (anatomy): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LEG: Acronym Finder
  3. LEG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. leg: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Leg: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. leg: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. leg: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leg, leg, leg, leg: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Leg: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. L.E.G, LEG: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  3. Leg: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. leg: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  4. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Leg: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See legged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
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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