hunch vs leg

hunch

verb
  • To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone). 

  • To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). 

  • To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back. 

  • To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. 

  • To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders. 

  • To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess. 

noun
  • A push or thrust, as with the elbow. 

  • A hump; a protuberance. 

  • A stooped or curled posture; a slouch. 

  • A hunk; a lump; a thick piece. 

  • A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen. 

leg

verb
  • To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse'). 

  • To remove the legs from an animal carcass. 

  • To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. 

  • To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. 

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

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

  • One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. 

  • Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. 

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

  • In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. 

  • A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. 

  • A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. 

  • An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. 

  • The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. 

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

  • An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy. 

  • 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. 

  • The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time. 

  • A stage of a journey, race etc. 

  • A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out. 

  • A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath. 

  • Something that supports. 

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

  • A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. 

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