peg-leg

peg-leg noun: a wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.

Noun

peg-leg (plural peg-legs)

peg-leg (third-person singular simple present peg-legs, present participle peg-legging, simple past and past participle peg-legged)

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
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

Noun
plural	peg-legs
alternative form	peg leg
alternative form	pegleg
Verb
third-person singular present	peg-legs
present participle	peg-legging
past participle	peg-legged
past	peg-legged

What does peg-leg mean?: Peg-leg means a wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.
What part of speech is peg-leg?: Peg-leg can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of peg-leg?: The plural of peg-leg is peg-legs.

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