Leg
A leg is a weight bearing and locomotive structure, usually having a columnar shape. During locomotion, legs function as "extensible struts" - the combination of movements at all joints can be modeled as a single, linear element capable of changing length and rotating about an omnidirectional "hip" joint.
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Famous quotes containing the word leg:
“We dont arrive at it by standing on one leg or on the first day of our setting outbut though we may jostle one another on the way that is no reason why we should strike or trampleelbowings enough.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“I keep thinking that what I need
to do is buy my leg back.
Surely it is for sale somewhere,
poor broken tool, poor ornament.
It might be in a store somewhere beside a ladys scarf.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a fair face will wither, a full eye will wax hollow, but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moonor rather the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)