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Leggin   Listen
noun
Leggin, Legging  n.  A cover for the leg, like a long gaiter.






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"Leggin" Quotes from Famous Books



... got no war-leggin's on; 'Er picture's never in the Press, Out scoutin'. She finds breeks "no bon," An' carries on ...
— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch

... them, and you'll reach camp before they eat their noon lunch. Now, get on your leggin's and thick shoes, and your coat and cap and mittens, and eat some cakes before you start, so as not to take theirs when ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 • Various

... at 'viands,' an' the caliginous part of it is good, only, if you aim to obfuscate my convolutions you'll have to dig a little deeper. Entirely irrelevant to syntax an' the allied trades, as the feller says, I'll add that them leggin's of yourn is on the wrong legs, an' here comes Winthrup ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx

... makes us wot we is; that's why you're a man and not a woman. Iver hadn't a gift to be a farmer, but he had to paintin'. It can't be other—it's Providence orders all, or you might be a mother and nursin' a baby, and I smokin' and goin' after the plough in leggin's." ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

... 'e a Regular Oner! Them along of 'im—with the red shoulder-straps and brown leather leggin's, they're cav'l'ry Orficers o' the Staff, they are. An' them others in khaki with puttees—syme as wot I've got on—they're the Medical Swells. Military Saw-boneses—twig? You can tell 'em, when you're near enough, by the bronze badges with a serpint climbin' up a stick inside a wreath, ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... road, and Cheyenne was singing his trail song, bow-legging ahead as though he were entirely alone and indifferent to ...
— Partners of Chance • Henry Herbert Knibbs



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