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单词 dead-leg
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dead-leg

English

Noun

dead-leg (plural dead-legs)

  1. Alternative form of dead leg (blow to the upper thigh)
    • 2007, Sean O'Brien, ‎Colm Tóibín, ‎Iain Mobbs, Mays 15, →ISBN:
      If they did then they kept quiet about it for fear of dead-legs, dead-shoulders, kidney punches, that sort of thing.
    • 2008, D. M. Samson, Nails, →ISBN, page 28:
      They'd given kids a dead-leg: a knee to the side of the thigh.
    • 2011, Paddy Sinnott, Eejit Strikes Back, →ISBN, page 13:
      I would then have to leave it to stealth, and when I did catch them I would give them a couple of dead-legs until they pleaded and promised they wouldn't do it again.
  2. Alternative form of deadleg (pipe with no outflow)
    • 1987, Wayne P. Olson, ‎Michael John Groves, Aseptic pharmaceutical manufacturing::
      In a WFI system, usually a distilled water loop, warm standing water can occur in dead-legs which are defined as dead-ends more than 5 to 6 pipe widths in length, and which extend downward, either straight or at an angle, from the loop.
    • 1995, Grahame W. Gould, New Methods of Food Preservation, →ISBN, page 291:
      Critical factors relating to preproduction sterilisation of food contact surfaces include correct assembly of equipment, and assurance that it is clean, and without crevices or dead-legs which are inaccessible for cleaning or heat sterilisation purposes.
    • 2001, William R. Herguth, ‎Thomas M. Warne, Turbine Lubrication in the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 44:
      When a turbine oil lubricating system is drained of one turbine oil and refilled with another turbine oil, as much as 10 to 15% of the previous oil can remain in the system due to clingage, low-spots, and piping dead-legs.
  3. Alternative form of deadleg (movement with hips and knees held stiff and striaght)
    • 1981, Athletic Journal - Volume 62, page 46:
      There are many different ways to throw the change-up, and through the years pitchers on the Dodgers have used three different methods. They use a "dead leg" in back, which helps the body drop low; holding the ball with three fingers on top;
    • 1990, Joe McFarland, Coaching Pitchers, page 103:
      When a pitcher is trying to be quicker to the plate, often he will start to dead-leg.
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