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Legging   /lˈɛgɪŋ/   Listen
Legging

noun
1.
A garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle).  Synonyms: leg covering, leging.






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"Legging" Quotes from Famous Books



... rubles immediately, or else you can finish the play yourself or return the public its money," calmly said Topolski, pulling off his other legging. ...
— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont

... away at the one nearest, which chances to be the cock bird, when the latter, suddenly elevating its head, and uttering a loud hiss succeeded by a snort, as from a badly-blown trumpet, turns tail and makes off over the plain; its mate turning simultaneously, and legging it alongside. All this to the surprise of the gaucho; who knows that he has not exposed his person and sees that neither have the others, nor yet made any noise to account for the behaviour of ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid

... noticed Lincoln in conversation with several leather-legging gentry like himself, whom I knew from their costume and appearance to be backwoodsmen. All at once these saturnine characters commenced moving about the room, and entering into conversation with men whom they had not ...
— The Rifle Rangers • Captain Mayne Reid

... Bill Glutts running in one direction and Gabe Werner legging it in another. Bill Glutts carried the tablecloth with a good portion of the things to eat still in it, while Gabe Werner held the newspaper ...
— The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck - Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields • Edward Stratemeyer



Words linked to "Legging" :   gaiter, leg covering, garment, spat, puttee, leging, chap



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