[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/leg/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [L](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/l/) / leg # leg noun (leg, legs) «leg» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A leg is a part of the body that people and animals stand and walk on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#m1) 2. Tables, chairs and stools also have legs that hold them up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#m2) 3. A leg of a trip or a race is one part of it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#m3) 4. The leg of trousers is the part that covers your leg. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#m4) ### In the lessons In school maths: a counted part: each animal or object has a fixed number of legs (a hen has 2 legs, a dog has 4 legs, an insect has 6 legs, a spider has 8 legs, a stool has 3 legs); legs puzzles; one part of a trip or relay race. In science: insects have 6 legs, spiders 8; leg bones and muscles. Phrases: «break a leg» (good luck to an actor), «pull someone's leg» (joke with them), «on its last legs» (almost broken). ### Examples - A dog has 4 legs. How many legs do 5 dogs have? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x1) - There are chickens and cows with 30 legs in all. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x2) - Each stool has 3 legs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x3) - The first leg of the trip is 20 km. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x4) - She hurt her leg playing netball. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x5) - An insect has 6 legs and a spider has 8 legs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x6) - He ran the last leg of the relay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x7) - Are you pulling my leg? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x8) - Take care, and remember your legs." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x9) ### Note Countable: «a leg», «legs». «Break a leg!» is a kind wish, not a bad one. Maths: hides a multiplication: number of animals × legs each. Trap: the problem often does not say how many legs each animal has; you must know it (bird 2, insect 6, spider 8). ## In Jewish tradition In school maths: a counted part: each animal or object has a fixed number of legs (a hen has 2 legs, a dog has 4 legs, an insect has 6 legs, a spider has 8 legs, a stool has 3 legs); legs puzzles; one part of a trip or relay race. In science: insects have 6 legs, spiders 8; leg bones and muscles. Phrases: «break a leg» (good luck to an actor), «pull someone's leg» (joke with them), «on its last legs» (almost broken). ### Examples - And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar. (Torah LEV.9.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x1) - But the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung, (Torah LEV.4.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x2) - Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof. (Torah EXO.12.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x3) - its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay. (Writings DAN.2.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x4) - The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools. (Writings PRO.26.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x5) - And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders. (Prophets 1SA.17.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/#x6) ### Note Countable: «a leg», «legs». «Break a leg!» is a kind wish, not a bad one. Maths: hides a multiplication: number of animals × legs each. Trap: the problem often does not say how many legs each animal has; you must know it (bird 2, insect 6, spider 8). ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «leg» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«leg» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/leg.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «leg» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/leg/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«leg» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/leg.html) on Mova free.