Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See legging.
  • noun The rim of a cask.

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  • noun legging

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Examples

  • I guess he's getting in as much of the "leggin'-it" as he can before ... well, before whatever happens.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2010

  • I guess he's getting in as much of the "leggin'-it" as he can before ... well, before whatever happens.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2010

  • Moccasins an 'leggin's are spoilt, an' my eyes are nippin '.

    Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

  • He's dressed in his best blankets an 'leggin's; an' his feathers an 'gay colours makes him a overwhelmin' match for peacocks.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • I'm not pulling your leg man, I'll not be leggin ya! by

    OpEdNews - Diary: Rob Kall Radio Show with David Ray Griffin Tonight 2008

  • Common dyke an 'in the road; an' when I was comin 'hame I saw him leggin' in the Loan wi 'the orange box on his heid.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Dismounting from his horse, he then takes from his leggin the butcher-knife that he always carries with him, and sticks the animal in the throat.

    What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

  • I saw two geese leggin 'it back as fast as they could go, and each one scoldin' the other one – we'll have a good spell of winter yet, I am afraid, in spite of our two warm days and all the signs of Spring.

    Purple Springs 1921

  • I can't stick my head out of the tent without someone's calling, "Sgt. Greene, have you got me any leggin laces?" or shoe laces, or tent pins, as the case may

    Paul Eliot Green Papers (#3693). Selected letters, 1917-1919 1919

  • But what the ---- Meanwhile I was leggin 'it down towards the village.

    The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

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