leg vs stud

leg

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To remove the legs from an animal carcass. 

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

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

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

stud

noun
  • A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob. 

  • A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. 

  • A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed. 

  • A stud bolt. 

  • A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal. 

  • A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American. 

  • A group of such animals. 

  • An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable. 

  • A small round earring. 

  • A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding. 

  • A sexually attractive male. 

  • A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept. 

  • An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding. 

  • A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed. 

verb
  • To set (something) over a surface at intervals. 

  • To set with studs; to furnish with studs. 

  • To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals. 

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