leg covering vs puttee

leg covering and puttee both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
leg covering	Yes	No	No	No
puttee	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, puttee is a hyponym of leg covering; that is, puttee is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than leg covering:

leg covering: a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle)
puttee: a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I

Other hyponyms of leg covering include chap, gaiter, gaiter, spat.

leg covering (noun)	puttee (noun)
a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle)	a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I