1. A little leg.
1821. Blackw. Mag., Jan., 424. High raised in air to … wap his [a jointed toy soldier’s] supple leglets in their view.
1855. Fraser’s Mag., LI. 263. [A nurse tells a child] to put down her frock, and cover two very pretty white leglets.
2. An ornament for the leg. (After armlet, etc.)
1836. Caroline Fox, Jrnl. (1882), 9. Numbers of anklets and leglets.
1866. Livingstone, Last Jrnls. (1873), I. viii. 198. It [wire] is used chiefly as leglets.
1887. Rider Haggard, K. Solomon’s Mines, 200. A pair of sandals, [and] a leglet of goats’ hair … made up his equipment.
