Leg (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Leg

To make a leg; to bow. To give leg-bail and land security; to run away. To fight at the leg; to take unfair advantages: it being held unfair by back-sword players to strike at the leg. To break a leg; a woman who has had a bastard, is said to have broken a leg.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Left-handed Wife * Leggers

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Lazy Man’s Load
Lazybones
Leaf
To Leak
Leaky
Leaping Over the Sword
Least In Sight
Leather
Leery
Left-handed Wife
Leg
Leggers
Lenten Fare
Letch
Levite
To Lib
Libbege
Libben
Libken
To Lick
Lickspittle