What is "wooden leg"

Usage examples of "wooden leg".

But the shelves were filled with a host of other things: tennis rackets, hockey sticks, umbrellas, a spade, a notebook computer, a wooden leg, several mugs, dozens of shoes, pairs of binoculars, a small log, six glove puppets, a lava lamp, various CDs, records (LPs, 45s, and 78s), cassette tapes and eight-tracks, dice, toy cars, assorted pairs of dentures, watches, flashlights, four garden gnomes of assorted sizes (two fishing, one of them mooning, the last smoking a cigar), piles of newspapers, magazines, grimoires, three-legged stools, a box of cigars, a plastic nodding-head Alsatian, socks .

Vera questioned the price of each sled and decided on an elderly driver with a wooden leg.

Murray wi' his wooden leg, and Mother liked him well etiough-but then he said, no, it was none of those things, and then he told ine-about Paris, I mean, and being born in a brothel and being a pickpocket until he met Da.

He eased himself down on a hassock, motioning her to a scat opposite, and she saxv that he had a wooden leg that protruded stiffly to one side.

Preoccupled with the difficulties of descent, he didn't turn, but she saw him lurch slightly, wooden leg sinking into the loose earth.

Lord, we must ha' been a sight, Ian wi' his wooden leg, and me wi' my stick, limping up and down the road like a pair of lame cranes!

I was up and about then, getting my stump accustomed to the pain of bearing my weight on the cup of the wooden leg they'd given me.

He went on to tell me about his days in the basalt quarries when he had had a woman with a wooden leg that could be unbuckled.

When a green dog ran out and barked at them the Saw-Horse promptly kicked at it with its wooden leg and sent the little animal howling into one of the houses.