leg
/lɛɡ/ noun A1- A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. · Insects have six legs.
- In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. · Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.
- The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. · The left leg of these jeans has a tear.
- A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath. · the legs of a chair or table
- Something that supports. · This observation is an important leg of my argument.
- A stage of a journey, race etc. · After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.
- A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
Plural legs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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At that moment several mice were seen running up as fast as their little legs could carry them, and when they saw their Queen they exclaimed:
His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely; and he thanked them again and again for his release, for he seemed a very polite creature, and very grateful.
It is a most tremendous monster, like a great spider, with a body as big as an elephant and legs as long as a tree trunk.
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