leg of lamb

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   lamb leg suitable for roasting

   Synonymsgigot

   Broaderlamb roastleg

Questions about leg of lamb

What does leg of lamb mean?

leg of lamb means "lamb leg suitable for roasting".

What is another word for leg of lamb?

Close synonyms include gigot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leg of lamb a common word?

leg of lamb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.