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foreleg

noun
/ˈfɔrˌlɛɡ/US

Etymology

From fore- + leg.

  1. derived from *lagjaz✻
  2. derived from leggr — “leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”
  3. inherited from leg
  4. prefixed as foreleg — “fore + leg”

Definitions

  1. Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal such as a horse, or…

    Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal such as a horse, or towards the front of a many-legged animal such as most insects, or of a piece of furniture, etc.

    • Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foreleg. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA