Brewer's: Leg

(A), that is, a blackleg (q.v.). To make a leg, is to make a bow.

The pursuivant smiled at their simplicitye, And making many leggs, tooke their reward.

The King and Miller of Mansfield.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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