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# foreleg

«foreleg» in Mova's school dictionary: **One of the two front legs of an animal such as a horse…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural forelegs)

### meaning for a pupil

One of the two front legs of an animal such as a horse, dog or cow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreleg/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales an animal lifts, kicks or rests its foreleg, and the front legs are often named apart from the back legs.

### examples

- The horse kicked out with its foreleg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreleg/#x1)
- The dog rested its foreleg on my knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreleg/#x2)
- The cow had mud on each foreleg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreleg/#x3)

### note

a horse has 2 forelegs (and 2 hind legs), so count forelegs as 2 per animal, not 4

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «foreleg» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreleg/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.