leg

leg is a 3-letter English word with 21 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.
2. noun. That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.
3. noun. The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
4. noun. A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
5. noun. A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
6. noun. The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
7. noun. An extension of the 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; -- called also water leg.
8. noun. The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
9. noun. A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
10. transitive verb. To use as a leg, with it as object
11. transitive verb. To bow.
12. transitive verb. To run.
13. noun. a section or portion of a journey or course

    "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"

    Synonyms: stage

14. noun. (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
15. noun. a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
16. noun. one of the supports for a piece of furniture
17. noun. a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

    Synonyms: peg, pegleg

18. noun. a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
19. noun. a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
20. noun. the limb of an animal used for food
21. noun. a part of a forked or branching shape

    "he broke off one of the branches"

    Synonyms: branch, ramification

Synonyms

stage, peg, pegleg, branch, ramification

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in leg:

gel

Common word forms

legs, legal, leger, leges, legged, legger, leging, legging, legless

Words from these letters

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