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ENGLISH: leg - CREOLE: janm

Overview of noun leg

The noun leg has 9 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)

1. (75) 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. (7) leg -- (a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion)

3. (2) leg -- (one of the supports for a piece of furniture)

4. (1) 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")