Noun

(en noun)

The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.

Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.

(anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.

A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.

The left leg of these jeans has a tear.

A stage of a journey, race etc.

After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.

(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.

(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.

(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.

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One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.

(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.

A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.

the legs of a chair or table

(usually used in plural) evidence, the ability of a thing or idea to stick around or persist

(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

An extension of a steam 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.

In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

(cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

Noun

(en noun)

A light breeze.

A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.

* 1657 , , Diary , I,

Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg , and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum .

* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 39,

Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs' and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the ' glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.

* 1998 , V. K. Riabitsev, Once Season in the Taiga , page 138,

The clegs' continue to swarm all around. I wonder how many there are.Remaining seated on the block, I seize ' clegs out of the surrounding air at random, and with scissors cut out a tiny triangle from the rear edge of each one's right wing before releasing it.

* 2007 , John T. Wright, An Evacuee's Story: A North Yorkshire Family in Wartime , page 361,

Cattle were grazing languidly on the lush grass and flicking their tails to keep away the clegs that constantly plagued them and, having recently suffered a nasty bite from one, I was wary of them myself.

* 2011 , Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath , page 49,

Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for.