A leg. This is as old as Maundeville and Dunbar. (N.E.D.)
1781. See an allusion s.v. BUNDLE.
1809.
| Her arms were as two trapsticks small, | |
| Her fingers just like thongs; | |
| Her legs,—if legs we might them call,— | |
| Were like the legs of tongs. | |
Mass. Spy, July 5. |
1854. She [the Indian maiden] was seated on a large granite rock, her legs (beg pardon—her limbs) stretched as far asunder as convenience permitted.—Knick. Mag., xliii. 554 (June).
1858. [The horse] fell from the stairs which he used to ascend, and, fracturing his limb, his death was rendered necessary.—Pittsburg Chronicle, June (Bartlett).
1873. There are several places where even the thickness of a man’s limb is too much between the horse and the cliff, and he would suffer a fearful squeeze, or be the cause of throwing himself and horse hundreds of feet down the ragged rocks.—J. H. Beadle, ‘The Undeveloped West,’ p. 549 (Phila., &c.).
