peg-legging

Verb

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

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.2014 -, Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster, →ISBN, page .41
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.1919, Bulletin - Volumes 179-183, page 185

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