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wooden-legged

wooden-legged adjective: having a wooden leg.

Adjective

wooden-legged (not comparable)

  1. 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...1957 July, Charles E. Lee, “The Changing Face of Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 451
    Synonyms:
    peg-legged

Synonyms of wooden-legged

Questions about wooden-legged

What does wooden-legged mean?
Wooden-legged means having a wooden leg.
What part of speech is wooden-legged?
Wooden-legged is an adjective.

Words near wooden-legged in the dictionary

  1. wooden surtout
  2. wooden surtouts
  3. wooden wedge
  4. wooden wedges
  5. wooden-headed
  6. wooden-legged
  7. wooden-top
  8. wooden-tops
  9. Woodenbong
  10. Woodenbridge
  11. Woodend

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