Definitions for legging

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legging leg·ging

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IPA: /ˈlɛg ɪŋ/

Legging is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in legging (egggiln).

Definitions for legging

noun

1. a covering for the leg, usually extending from the ankle to the knee but sometimes higher, worn by soldiers, riders, workers, etc. Compare chaps, gaiter, puttee.
2. leggings, (used with a plural verb) close-fitting knit pants. the pants of a two-piece snowsuit.
3. either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
4. Anatomy. the lower limb of a human being from the knee to the ankle.
5. something resembling or suggesting a leg in use, position, or appearance.
6. the part of a garment that covers the leg:
7. one of usually several, relatively tall, slender supports for a piece of furniture.
8. one of the sides of a forked object, as of a compass or pair of dividers.
9. one of the sides of a triangle other than the base or hypotenuse.
10. a timber, bar, or the like, serving to prop or shore up a structure.
11. one of the flanges of an angle iron.
12. one of the distinct sections of any course:
13. Nautical. one of the series of straight runs that make up the zigzag course of a sailing ship. one straight or nearly straight part of a multiple-sided course in a sailing race.
14. Sports. one of a designated number of contests that must be successfully completed in order to determine the winner. one of the stretches or sections of a relay race.
15. legs, (in wine tasting) the rivulets of wine that slowly descend along the inside of a glass after the wine has been swirled, sometimes regarded as an indication that the wine is full-bodied.
16. Cricket. the part of the field to the left of and behind the batsman as he faces the bowler or to the right of and behind him if he is left-handed. the fielder playing this part of the field. the position of this fielder.
17. Electricity. a component or branch of a circuit, network, antenna, etc.
18. Radio and Television. a connecting link between stations in a network, as the microwave relays used in transmitting a show from one geographical area to another.
19. bride2 (def 1).

Idioms

1. leg it, Informal. to walk rapidly or run:
2. leg up, a means of help or encouragement; assist; boost: advantage; edge.
3. not have a leg to stand on, to lack a valid or logical basis for one's argument or attitude:
4. on one's / its last legs, just short of exhaustion, breakdown, failure, etc.:
5. pull someone's leg, to make fun of someone; tease. to deceive someone; trick someone.
6. shake a leg, Informal. to hurry up. Older Use. to dance.
7. stretch one's legs, to take a walk; get some needed exercise after prolonged sitting:

Verb phrases

1. leg up, to help (someone) to mount a horse.

verb (used with object)

1. to move or propel (a boat) with the legs:

Origin of legging

First recorded in 1745-55; leg + -ing¹

Examples for legging

In default of anything better a legging will do, slipped off when we are on the ground.

Frank was now down on his knees and starting to remove the legging.

They didnt pass us as we were legging it away from old Wallace.

At length he said, Are you looking for your other legging and moccasin?

As he passes the man who holds his horses the legging is caught and jerked free.

My legs are stiff, and my legging has frozen fast 26 to my overshoe; I remember that.

A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

Instead, that small boy was legging it westward as fast as he could go.

I hadn't a rap in my pockets, but it was very near a 'legging' for me.

Before it had fairly left his hand Joe was legging it to the plate.