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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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