leg vs plough

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. 

plough

verb
  • To move with force. 

  • To use a plough. 

  • To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting. 

  • To fail (a student). 

  • To run through, as in sailing. 

  • To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc. 

  • To have sex with, penetrate. 

  • To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in. 

  • To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough. 

noun
  • A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. 

  • A joiner's plane for making grooves. 

  • A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books. 

  • The use of a plough; tillage. 

  • A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana. 

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