Legger
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Legger is a noun meaning (informal) A bootlegger.
Meaning
(informal) A bootlegger.
More Meanings
- (in combination) Something having the specified number of legs.
- (British, obsolete) A man employed by the owners of a canal to push boats through narrow canal tunnels. The legger would lie on his back on a piece of wood on the boat with his feet reaching to the tunnel wall, and walk it along. This could be done by the boat's crew, but the canals employed men specifically for the task because they could do it faster and prevent a tunnel becoming a bottleneck for traffic.
Example Sentences
Won't your ladyship condescend to use a three legger. (offers a stool)
Oh, you mean the ex-legger the eldest girl picked up and went and married.
Word Forms
- leggers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include boot, bootlegger, buttlegger, booklegger, lugger, foodlegger.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.