A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. • In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. • The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. • A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. • A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath. • Something that supports. • A stage of a journey, race etc. • A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other. • One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race. • A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. • One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse. • One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle. • One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. • The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time. • A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. • An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler. • In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. • Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman. • A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. • A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. • An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy. • An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. • A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg. • A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out. • Synonym of leg up (“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”). • An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward). • Synonym of blackleg (“a gambling cheat”).