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▪ I. legging, n.|ˈlɛgɪŋ|
Chiefly pl. Also 8–9 pl. leggins.
[f. leg n. + -ing1 (but cf. -ing3).]
a. In pl. A pair of extra outer coverings (usually of leather or cloth), used as a protection for the legs in bad weather, and commonly reaching from the ankle to the knee, but sometimes higher.
1763in F. B. Hough Siege Detroit (1860) 200 The Men to be clothed, but in a light Manner; a cloth Jacket, flannel Waistcoat, Leggins, &c. will be sufficient. 1809A. Henry Trav. 156 A pair of leggings, or pantaloons, of scarlet cloth, which..cost me fifteen pounds of beaver. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 26 With leather leggings on, that stopt the snow. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 203 A hunting-shirt of dressed deer-skin..and leggins of the same, fringed from hip to heel. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 415 Long leggings reaching over the knees, and made of half-tanned leather.
b. Cricket = pad n.3 3 c. Now rare or Obs.
1858in Cricket Q. (1963) I. 21. 1875 Baily's Monthly Mag. May 11 Beldham also, without either leggings or gloves, scored 72 against Brown..when fifty-two years old. 1934W. J. Lewis Lang. Cricket 146 Leggings, leg-guards of a primitive type.
Hence ˈlegginged a., having leggings.
1837,1852[see leather-legginged in leather n. 5 d]. 1891M. M. Dowie Girl in Karp. 39 My yellow legginged feet.
▸ Tight-fitting trousers made of stretch fabric and having an elasticated waist, typically worn by women or girls.
Quot. 1895 may simply represent a specific application of sense a.
1895Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 16 Sept. 2/2 A woman..wearing a pair of blue cotton leggings like tights from her waist to her ankles. 1965Mansfield (Ohio) News Jrnl. 1 Apr. 16/6 Designed by David Evins, the sausage boot is actually a black leather shoe with lycra leggings attached to it. 1988Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 19/3 Basic black leggins—like tights with the feet cut off—remain the staple in the fashion diet. 2004Metro (London ed.) 4 May 26/3 In stretch T-shirt and nasty cotton leggings, you're all prosciutto pins and deli belly.
▪ II. legging, vbl. n.|ˈlɛgɪŋ|
[f. leg. v. + -ing1.]
1. Making a ‘leg’ or obeisance.
1872Blackmore Maid of Sk. (1881) 160 All the bowing and legging I had seen in the Royal Navy.
2. Propelling a boat through a canal-tunnel by human labour (see quot. 1949). Cf. leg v. 3. Also attrib.
1861S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. viii. x. 421 It [sc. the tunnel] was little larger than a sewer, and admitted the passage of only one narrow boat, seven feet wide, at a time, involving very heavy labour on the part of the men who worked it through. This was performed by what was called legging. 1949Archit. Rev. CVI. 13/2 In the early tunnels towpaths were never constructed and boats were propelled through them either by shafting or legging... Legging was carried out by two men, one on each side of the boat lying on their backs and pushing against the tunnel sides with their feet. 1963Times 4 May 6/4 They will stare in amazement at the legging boards used in the navigation of tunnels in the days when horse power meant what it said. 1975Times 13 Mar. 4/7 The police have concentrated on the eighteenth-century ‘legging’ tunnel, built by Grindley, so called because boatmen had to propel their craft through by thrusting their legs against the roof.
3. Austral. and N.Z. Of dogs, the biting of an animal on the leg. Cf. leg v. 5 b.
1933L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 4 Nov. 15/7 Some dogs get a bad habit of biting sheep on the leg in yards; others of laming other dogs while fighting. Both these vices are called legging. 1960[see force n.1 7 e].
▪ III. ˈlegging, ppl. a.
[f. leg v. + -ing2.]
That makes a ‘leg’ or obeisance.
1602W. Bas Sword & Buckler B, A legging foote, a well-embracing hand. |