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wooden-legged en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a wooden leg.
It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations.
1957 July 14, Charles E. Lee, “The Changing Face of Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 451:
Synonyms
peg-legged