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peg-leg en · NOUN
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A wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.
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The user of a wooden leg.
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Translations (7)
fi puujalka (wooden leg) · izh puujalka (wooden leg) · es pata de palo (wooden leg) · pl drewniana proteza nogi (wooden leg) · de Holzbein (wooden leg) · fr jambe de bois (wooden leg) · it gamba di legno (wooden leg)
peg-leg en · VERB
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To limp or hobble (having or imitating having a wooden leg).
"Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue.
2014 -, Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster, →ISBN, page .41:
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To appear or detect in a discontinuous fashion.
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.
1919, Bulletin - Volumes 179-183, page 185: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.
2017, Enwenode Onajite, Practical Solutions to Integrated Oil and Gas Reservoir Analysis, →ISBN:
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