1An injury caused by a numbing blow with the knee to a person's upper leg.
（因受膝盖撞击所致的）腿部严重损伤
the striker was taken off with a dead leg
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Cummins suffered a knee in the thigh and a resultant dead leg.
Darren Hughes recovered sufficiently from a dead leg to make the starting line-up but he was only able to complete 20 minutes.
Brian O'Driscoll and Neil Back both have dead legs and both Rob Henderson and Scott Quinnell have had bangs to their knees.
Also featuring tomorrow night at Lincoln is defender Martin Reed, who missed Saturday's trip to Plymouth with a dead leg.
As it happened, the collision forced Dempsey to retire with a dead leg.
Danny Farthing, who was making his Town comeback, looks likely to miss out with a dead leg, while Nick Richardson and Scott Bonsall are also doubtful.
Alan Pallister sustained a dead leg, Matt Mulholland had to leave the field with a knee injury and Shaun Austerfield hurt an ankle.
With Phil Greening injured and Robin McBryde still suffering from a dead leg, Gordon's getting a lot of game time in which to impress.
He used to give us dead legs and camel bites, which used to really hurt.
Omari has been our talisman this season, but he got a dead leg last week and could hardly walk.
I noticed these 2 people picking on a few various people, calling them names, hitting them, giving them dead legs etc.
I didn't like him very much coz he was always creeping up behind you and giving you a dead leg with his knee, and stealing stuff from your desk and that kind of thing.
Mervill is still suffering the effects of a dead leg while Wainwright is having trouble with his knee.
Me and Bea indulged in a secret orgy of eye-rolling while she was telling us this, and I commented ‘Very dangerous, that air’ which earned me a dead leg from Bea.
Tom Kelly has had a difficult year with a succession of injuries ruling him out of a number of games with a recurring dead leg, a shoulder injury and more recently a rib problem.
Nick Walne and Shaun James are both suffering from shoulder injuries while Nick Robinson has a dead leg with just a 50-50 chance of playing.
"I felt like I'd been given a dead leg, like I'd been thumped really hard.
Miller, nursing a dead leg, limped from the fray shortly afterwards, to be replaced by David Hannah.
Richard Chaplow has a dead leg on his thigh that swelled up rapidly and doesn't look good at all.
The Northern Ireland international has shaken off the dead leg suffered at Shrewsbury in midweek and has been deemed fit for City's final game of the season tomorrow.
2A length of pipe running from a hot water cylinder to the hot taps.
热水管
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The new Markwik range of thermostatic mixers eliminate the possible dead leg of warm water between the thermostat and the tap.
This is usually explained by the presence of sulfur-reducing bacteria in a "dead leg" in the plumbing system.
Dead legs and poorly drained internal valve surfaces represent places where a product or chemicals may undesirably pool.
Find the dead leg, cut and cap the pipe closer to the tee.
verb
informal
with objectGive (someone) a numbing blow to the upper leg with one's knee.
〈非正式〉用膝盖撞（某人）的大腿
Mucker dead-legged him and Andy groaned, sinking to one knee
Example sentencesExamples
So he dead-legged me and I fell down crying too.
The principal handcuffed him, walked him inside, and dead-legged him.
The other day, I was dead-legged the hardest I have ever been dead-legged before, the pain hurt so much, I nearly passed out.