Usually means: Stagnant section in a pipeline.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (deadleg)

noun:  A lazy or weak person.
noun:  An isolated section of pipeline that does not usually carry a flow.
noun:  (sports) A movement in which the hips and knees are kept straight and stiff and the ankle is flexed.
noun:  (shipping) A vehicle that is traveling on a leg of its route in which it does not carry any cargo.
verb:  (transitive) To knee someone in the thigh.
noun:  Alternative form of dead leg (injury to the upper thigh) [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.]

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