1596. Nashe, Have With You, etc. [Grosart (1885), iii. 146].
Whither ... haue you brought mee? To Newgate, good Master Doctour,
with a lowe leg they made answer.
1598. Shakspeare, I Henry IV, i. Well, here’s my leg.
1602. Cooke, How to Choose a Good Wife etc. [Dodsley, Old Plays
(1874), ix. 18]. With legs, with curtsies, congees, and such like.
1603. Dekker, Wonderful Yeare [Grosart (1886), i. 83]. Janus ...
made a very mannerly lowe legge.
1663. Killigrew, Parson’s Wedding, ii. 7. Then a stranger ... beats
about with three graceful legs.
Verb. (common).—1. To trip up.
1882. Sat. Review, 22 April. Presently they legged the copper, and
he fell to the ground.