leg

Noun

• a section or portion of a journey or course
  • then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise
    

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

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

• a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

• the limb of an animal used for food

• a part of a forked or branching shape
  • he broke off one of the branches
    

• one of the supports for a piece of furniture

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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  stage , peg , wooden leg , pegleg , branch , ramification