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a personal scaffolding that walks you nowhere fast and everywhere eventually
means A limb used for standing, walking, and bearing weight — in people and animals, and by extension the support of a table or chair, or one stage of a journey.
from From Old Norse 'leggr,' meaning a leg or bone of the limb, borrowed into English by Norse settlers who left their words scattered across the language like dropped tools. It largely shoved aside the older native English term 'shank,' which survives now mostly in the lower leg and in cuts of meat.
- bone count
- thigh holds the body's longest, strongest bone
- phantom limb
- amputees still feel legs that no longer exist
- chicken paradox
- a chicken can run briefly with its head removed
- sea legs
- sailors' brains rewire balance, then betray them ashore
amputee soccer — fifa recognized amputee football as official sport; players compete with one leg or prosthetics
marathon legs — 26.2 miles divided into stages; tour de france stages average 125 miles per leg
wooden leg prosthetics — peg legs used from 1500s onward; admiral nelson wore one after losing his limb in 1797