Dog-leg is a term used to describe a configuration of stairs between two floors of a building, often a domestic building, in which there are two short flights at 180 degrees to each other, joined by a half-landing to enable the 180 degree turn.
Dog-leg stair: parallel flights rising alternately in opposite directions, without an open well. Flying stair: cantilevered from the walls of a stairwell, without newels; sometimes called a Geometric stair when the inner edge describes a curve.
Dog-leg - a right angle in a passageway (for example, garderobes usually had a dog-leg approach so that the air from the privy pit would not blow back directly into the room).
Dog-legged - with right-angle bends.
(1 2 in. to foot.) The newel or dog-legged stair is so termed from its supposed resemblance to a dog's hind leg.
Of a porch or portico: having two columns.Dog-leg stair
With parallel flights rising alternately in opposite directions, without an open well.Dogtooth ...
the central post in a circular or winding staircase; also the principal post at each angle of a dog-legged or well staircase.
Ogee ...
 See also: Band, Well, Ornament, Shaft, Frieze
  
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