"Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue.
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Peg-leg
Synonyms for "peg-leg"
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Translations
7 translations across 7 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- puujalka noun (wooden leg)
French
1 entries- jambe de bois noun (wooden leg)
German
1 entries- Holzbein noun (wooden leg)
Ingrian
1 entries- puujalka noun (wooden leg)
Italian
1 entries- gamba di legno noun (wooden leg)
Polish
1 entries- drewniana proteza nogi noun (wooden leg)
Spanish
1 entries- pata de palo noun (wooden leg)
Sample sentences
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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.
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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.
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