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Meaning of leg

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  leg
      n 1: 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: a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and
         used for locomotion
      3: one of the supports for a piece of furniture
      4: a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of
         the branches" [syn: {branch}, {leg}, {ramification}]
      5: the limb of an animal used for food
      6: a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg [syn: {peg}, {wooden
         leg}, {leg}, {pegleg}]
      7: a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers
         that covers a person's leg
      8: (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a
         single tack
      9: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we
         embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise" [syn:
         {stage}, {leg}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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