Usually means: Stagnant section in piping system.
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  1. dead-leg, dead leg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. dead leg: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dead-leg, dead leg: Wiktionary
  4. dead-leg, dead leg: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead leg: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead-Leg, dead leg: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead leg)

noun:  A blow to the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone and crushing the nerve cluster next to the quadriceps. Also, the resulting injury.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, leg.
noun:  Alternative form of deadleg (isolated section of pipe with no outflow). [A lazy or weak person.]

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