legs

Meanings

Noun

• staying power
  • "that old Broadway play really has legs"
• a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
• a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
• one of the supports for a piece of furniture
• a part of a forked or branching shape
• the limb of an animal used for food
• a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
• a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
• (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
• a section or portion of a journey or course
• plural of leg
• Eleven.
• Viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting.

Verb

• third-person singular simple present indicative of leg

Synonyms

branch, leg, peg, pegleg, ramification, stage, wooden leg