dead-leg
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.55 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of deadleg (pipe with no outflow)
Example Sentences
- "If they did then they kept quiet about it for fear of dead-legs, dead-shoulders, kidney punches, that sort of thing."
- "They'd given kids a dead-leg: a knee to the side of the thigh."
- "I would then have to leave it to stealth, and when I did catch them I would give them a couple of dead-legs until they pleaded and promised they wouldn't do it again."
- "In a WFI system, usually a distilled water loop, warm standing water can occur in dead-legs which are defined as dead-ends more than 5 to 6 pipe widths in length, and which extend downward, either straight or at an angle, from the loop."
- "Critical factors relating to preproduction sterilisation of food contact surfaces include correct assembly of equipment, and assurance that it is clean, and without crevices or dead-legs which are inaccessible for cleaning or heat sterilisation purposes."
- "When a turbine oil lubricating system is drained of one turbine oil and refilled with another turbine oil, as much as 10 to 15% of the previous oil can remain in the system due to clingage, low-spots, and piping dead-legs."