leg
/lɛɡ/ verb C1- To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
- To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
- To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
- To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
- To thrust up or raise via the legs; to give a leg-up to.
He/she/it legs · Past legged · Past participle legged · -ing form legging
Verb forms
- Base form
- leg
- He/she/it
- legs
- Past
- legged
- Past participle
- legged
- -ing form
- legging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He came here with his victim in a four-wheeled cab, which was drawn by a horse with three old shoes and one new one on his off fore leg.
Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
“This at first seemed a great misfortune, for I knew a one-legged man could not do very well as a wood-chopper.
So I went to a tinsmith and had him make me a new leg out of tin.
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