Peg-leg

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun

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

Verb

1
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."
2
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."

Example

""Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue."

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