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peg-leg
  1. Descriptive of one with such a leg. E.g. "Peg-leg Pete". n. A wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg. v

  2. To limp or hobble (as if having a wooden leg)

Usage examples of "peg-leg".

Neither was it a Jolly Jack Tar of a place, like The Peg-legged Pirate's Pool Hall, over on the West Side.

Jack and Vrej were up in the ratlines while Padraig, who had lost his left leg during a corsair-attack around Hainan Island, was stomping around on a hand-carved peg-leg of jacaranda wood, humming to himself and pulling on ropes as necessary.