A dialectal or archaic term for a person's leg, or sometimes a wooden leg or false limb.
Origin uncertain; possibly from Dutch or Germanic roots relating to limbs. The term appears sporadically in English dialects and may be related to leg-related compounds in Northern European languages.
This is a word that nearly disappeared from English—it survives mainly in regional British dialects and shows how languages naturally forget words when they fall out of daily use.
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