leg vs stuff

leg

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. 

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. 

stuff

verb
  • To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin. 

  • To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre. 

  • To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later. 

  • To fill with seasoning. 

  • To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner. 

  • To break; to destroy. 

  • To load goods into (a container) for transport. 

  • To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess. 

  • To sate. 

  • To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. 

  • To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. 

  • To heavily defeat or get the better of. 

  • Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it. 

  • To sexually penetrate. 

  • To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner. 

noun
  • Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language. 

  • Narcotic drugs, especially heroin. 

  • The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object. 

  • Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff. 

  • Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name. 

  • Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects. 

  • Unspecified things or matters. 

  • A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. 

  • Abstract/figurative substance or character. 

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