legging, leging, leg covering
(noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
legging (plural leggings)
A covering, usually of leather, worn from knee to ankle.
Tight fitting leg coverings worn, for example, to gym.
One of the legs of a pair of trousers.
• Take the legging and turn up the cuff.
The process of putting a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
legging
present participle of leg
• eggling
Source: Wiktionary
Leg"ging, Leg"gin, n. Etym: [From Leg.]
Definition: A cover for the leg, like a long gaiter.
Leg"ging, a. & vb. n.
Definition: , from Leg, v. t.
Leg, n. Etym: [Icel. leggr; akin to Dan. læg calf of the leg, Sw. lägg.]
1. 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. 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 pair of compasses or dividers.
3. The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
4. A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing. [Obs.] He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks for a favor he never received. Fuller.
5. A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. [Slang, Eng.]
6. (Naut.)
Definition: The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
7. (Steam Boiler)
Definition: 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. (Grain Elevator)
Definition: The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
9. (Cricket)
Definition: A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter. A good leg (Naut.), a course sailed on a tack which is near the desired course.
– Leg bail, escape from custody by flight. [Slang] -- Legs of an hyperbola (or other curve) (Geom.), the branches of the curve which extend outward indefinitely.
– Legs of a triangle, the sides of a triangle; -- a name seldom used unless one of the sides is first distinguished by some appropriate term; as, the hypothenuse and two legs of a right-angled triangle. On one's legs, standing to speak.
– One's last legs. See under Last.
– To have legs (Naut.), to have speed.
– To stand on one's own legs, to support one's self; to be independent.
Leg, v. t.
Definition: To use as a leg, with it as object: (a) To bow. [Obs.] (b) To run [Low]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 January 2025
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