Word.ws English Dictionary

stiffleg

stiffleg noun: any of the two or more stiff members, capable of resisting either tensile or compressive forces, that are used to secure the top of a mast in some types of derrick.

Noun

stiffleg (plural stifflegs)

  1. Any of the two or more stiff members, capable of resisting either tensile or compressive forces, that are used to secure the top of a mast in some types of derrick.

Forms of stiffleg

pluralstifflegs

Origin of stiffleg

stiff + leg

Questions about stiffleg

What does stiffleg mean?
Stiffleg means any of the two or more stiff members, capable of resisting either tensile or compressive forces, that are used to secure the top of a mast in some types of derrick.
What part of speech is stiffleg?
Stiffleg is a noun.
What is the plural of stiffleg?
The plural of stiffleg is stifflegs.

Words near stiffleg in the dictionary

  1. stiffing
  2. stiffing up
  3. stiffish
  4. Stiffkey
  5. stiffle
  6. stiffleg
  7. stifflegs
  8. Stiffler
  9. Stifflers
  10. stifflike
  11. stiffly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stiffleg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “stiffleg.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stiffleg. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.