Crossword clues for pegleg
pegleg
- Pirate's prosthesis
- Captain Ahab feature
- Ahab feature
- Pirate costume part
- Captain Ahab, for one
- Stereotypical prosthetic limb for a pirate
- Pirate's support, stereotypically
- Pirate's support
- Pirate's prop
- Pirate, stereotypically
- Pirate-costume feature
- Pirate stereotype
- Long John Silver feature (Bob Marley: Last 3 letters + ...)
- Limb for Ahab
- Feature of Captain Ahab
- Feature for Ahab
- Artificial lower limb
- Ahab's prosthesis
- "Moby-Dick" prosthesis
- ___ Pete (early Mickey Mouse nemesis)
- Pirate's feature, sometimes
- Long John Silver, e.g.
- Stereotypical pirate feature
- Disney's Pete, for one
- Pirate's supporter
- Pirate support, stereotypically
- Ahab, e.g.
- A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- Silver's artificial limb
- Long John Silver, for one
- Feature of many a pirate
- Stuyvesant was one
- Stuyvesant had one
- Feature for a wooden soldier?
- Silver, perhaps, Maggie has set in recess
- Fake member of parliament initially says Latin must be included
- Artificial limb
- Part of a pirate costume
- Ahab, e.g
WordNet
n. a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg [syn: peg, wooden leg, leg]
Wikipedia
A pegleg is a prosthesis, or artificial limb, fitted to the remaining stump of a human leg. Its use dates to antiquity.
By the late 19th century, prosthetics vendors would offer peg legs as cheaper alternatives to more intricate lifelike artificial legs. Even as vendors touted advantages of more complicated prostheses over simple peg legs, according to a contemporary surgeon, many patients found a peg leg more comfortable for walking. According to medical reports, some amputees were able to adjust to the use of a peg leg so well that they could walk 10, or even 30, miles in one day.
Nowadays, wooden peg legs have been replaced by more modern materials, though some sports prostheses do have the same form.
Usage examples of "pegleg".
Two baleful glowing eyes watched Pegleg from a dark pile of baggage far from the central fire.
The monster vanished and Pegleg resumed his seat by the fire, nonchalantly drinking his wine.
Rippling music, as from a marimba of glass, filled the room as six Firvulag of the palace guard escorted the humans and Fitharn Pegleg into the royal presence.
Took five arrows to finish it off after Pegleg trapped it in a thicket.
It killed Steffi and damn near did for me by the time Pegleg shlepped me back here to Amerie.
And Pegleg said his people marched away from the Grave, so they must have left the aircraft there.
Took five arrows to finish it off after Pegleg trapped it in a thicket I still can't figure how anything that big could have snuck up on us unawares.
As he stopped near the mage, a smile creased the half-ogre's yellowish face, and he suddenly slammed the steel toe of his pegleg against the side of Raistlin's head.
Lurching forward, using the last bit of strength in his own body, Caramon lifted the log and drove it down as hard as he could on the knee to which the pegleg was attached.
As a hammer strikes a nail, Caramon's blow drove the pegleg deep into the sodden ground.
Steeltoe lay in the mud, his steel pegleg still pinning him to the ground, the rain washing away the blood and brains that oozed from the cracks in his skull.
At that moment, there was a loud explosion from behind him, and Pegleg Pete leapt into the air like a startled roebuck, losing his hat and telescope in the process.
When the Master of Artillery emerged on deck a moment later with an armful of skyrockets, the entire crew -- including Pegleg Pete -- dived for cover, and the laughter and stamping of feet was so loud that Niall had to cover his ears.
Hopping easily on his pegleg, he went up the rocks that hemmed the space on three sides and ascertained that the adjoining sites were empty.
Don't suppose I'll ever forget the night Little Billy Pegleg jumped up and.