English-Dutch translations for leg

been
Dat is echter een pleister op een houten been. It is as much use as a plaster on a wooden leg.
poot
Wij hebben geen juridische poot om op te staan om die instemming af te dwingen van de Raad. We do not have a legal leg to stand on to enforce this assent from the Council. Zoals we deze week gezien hebben, knagen dieren die in de wildklem vastzitten hun eigen poot af om een eind te maken aan hun lijden. As we saw this week, animals in pain attempt to chew off their own legs to escape the pain. Ik veronderstel dat het niet zo erg pijn doet om je eigen poot eraf te kauwen als je in zo'n val klem komt te zitten. I suppose it does not hurt so much to chew off your own leg if you are caught in one of those.

The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle
The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle
Something that supports
A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other
A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest
One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse
A rod -like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath
evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist needs improving--
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg
A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter
A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system
An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper
To remove the legs from an animal carcass
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market

Dan wont be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.
The left leg of these jeans has a tear.
After six days, were finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.
the legs of a chair or table
One argument made a lot in the leg was that the bill would simplify voting.
The party wants to tackle social issues in the next leg term.

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