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half-leg U.S. Half the height of a man's leg. In phr. half-leg deep, half-leg high.
1752J. Hempstead Diary (1901) 599 A great Snow knee deep..last night & this morning half Leg deep & more. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 112 Natty, makin' his way, through the bushes, half-leg deep. 1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. i. 13 The snow was lying about half-leg deep. 1852G. N. Jones Florida Plant. Rec. (1927) 65, I have a little corn half leg high. 1855Ibid. 133 The spring branch newground [is] knee high, spring branch cut half leg. |