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leg

/lɛɡ/ noun A1
  1. A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. · Insects have six legs.
  2. 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.
  3. The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
  4. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. · The left leg of these jeans has a tear.
  5. 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
  6. Something that supports. (figuratively) · This observation is an important leg of my argument.
  7. A stage of a journey, race etc. · After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.
  8. A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.

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when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 7 · B2
Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all directions, “just like a star-fish,” thought Alice.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 44 · B2
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it _would_ twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 62 · B2
The next thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms--hard, strong, little hands--and then a swash of branches in his face, and then he was staring down through the swaying boughs as Baloo woke the jungle with his deep cries and Bagheera bounded up the trunk with every tooth bared.
The Jungle Book, p. 38 · B2

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