peg-leg

See also: peg leg

English

Alternative forms

• peg leg
• pegleg

Noun

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.

Translations

wooden leg

• Finnish: puujalka (fi)
• French: jambe de bois (fr) f
• German: Holzbein (de) n
• Ingrian: puujalka
• Italian: gamba di legno f
• Spanish: pata de palo f

Verb

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.