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US
/ˈɫɛɡ/
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[ UK /lˈɛɡ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɛɡ/ ]
NOUN
- one of the supports for a piece of furniture
- a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
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a section or portion of a journey or course
then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise - a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
- a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
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a part of a forked or branching shape
he broke off one of the branches - the limb of an animal used for food
How To Use leg In A Sentence
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- The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
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- The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
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- We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
- The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.