leg

noun

1. 1

   a section or portion of a journey or course

   then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise

2. 2

   (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack

3. 3

   a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg

4. 4

   one of the supports for a piece of furniture

5. 5

   a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

6. 6

   a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle

7. 7

   a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion

8. 8

   the limb of an animal used for food

9. 9

   a part of a forked or branching shape

   he broke off one of the branches