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1. Staying power
   "that old Broadway play really has legs"

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
   - pin [informal], peg [informal], stick [informal]
    
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 legs";
   - branch, ramification
    
5. The limb of an animal used for food
    
6. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
   - peg [informal], wooden leg, pegleg [informal], peg leg [informal]
    
7. A cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
    
8. (nautical) the distance travelled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
    
9. A section or portion of a journey or course
   "then we embarked on the second leg of our Caribbean cruise";
   - stage

Derived forms: legses

Type of: cloth covering, cut, cut of meat, distance, length, limb, prosthesis, prosthetic, prosthetic device, stamina, staying power, stickability [informal], subfigure, support, toughness, travel, traveling [US], travelling [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: body, camp bed [Brit], chair, cot [Brit], dacks [Austral, NZ], daks [Austral, NZ], forking, four-poster, furcation, grand, grand piano, hospital bed, journey, journeying, organic structure, pair of trousers, pants [N. Amer], spinning wheel, table, tripod, trousers

Encyclopedia: Legs