Leglin-girth
.To cast a leglin-girth. To have “a screw loose;” to have made a faux pas; to have one’s reputation blown upon. A leglin-girth is the lowest hoop of a leglin or milk-pail. (See Sir Walter Scott: Fortunes of Nigel, chap. xxii.)
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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.