Definition of leg

"leg" in the noun sense

1. leg

a human limb commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle

2. leg

a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion

3. leg

one of the supports for a piece of furniture

4. branch, leg, ramification

a part of a forked or branching shape

"he broke off one of the branches"

5. leg

the limb of an animal used for food

6. peg, wooden leg, leg, pegleg

a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

7. leg

a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg

8. leg

nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack

9. stage, leg

a section or portion of a journey or course

"then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"

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Quotations for leg

Lose a leg rather than life. [ Proverb ]

A wooden leg is better than no leg. [ Proverb ]

I now see which leg you are lame of. [ Proverb ]

Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully or standing still.
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother.
Desirous seems to run away from t' other. [ Churchill ]

Here lies Dame Dorothy Peg,
Who never had issue except in her leg,
So great was her art, so deep was her cunning,
That while one leg stood, the other kept running. [ Epitaph ]

She will stay at home perhaps if her leg be broke. [ Proverb ]

One leg of a lark is worth the whole body of a kite. [ Proverb ]

He that gives thee a capon, give him the leg and the wing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

With cost, good pottage may be made out of a leg of a joint stool. [ Proverb ]

Were it not for the bone in the leg all the world would turn carpenters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me! [ Charles Dickens ]

If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]

leg in Scrabble®

The word leg is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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leg in Words With Friends™

The word leg is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Words containing the sequence leg

Words with leg in them (389 words)

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Word Growth involving leg

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allege allegeable

allege alleged allegedly

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allege alleges

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college colleges

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dogleg doglegged

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foreleg forelegs

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jackleg jacklegs

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