peg-leg

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Noun

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peg-leg (plural peg-legs)

  1. A wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.
  2. The user of a wooden leg.

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Verb

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peg-leg (third-person singular simple present peg-legs, present participle peg-legging, simple past and past participle peg-legged)

  1. To limp or hobble (having or imitating having a wooden leg).
    • 2014 -, Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster, →ISBN, page .41:
      "Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue.
  2. (geology) To appear or detect in a discontinuous fashion.
    • 1919, Bulletin - Volumes 179-183, page 185:
      With the wire line, except at great depths, the nearest parallel to the lift of a manila cable in a dry hole is "peg-legging" (alternate hitting and missing of the tools). Tools will peg-leg with the wire line, but should not be permitted to do so in a dry hole under ordinary conditions.
    • 2017, Enwenode Onajite, Practical Solutions to Integrated Oil and Gas Reservoir Analysis, →ISBN:
      Typically high velocity lithological units like salt, anhydrites or basalts are the dominating monolithic units where they occur. The chances of energy bouncing peg legging within them is a long shot.