peg-leg

  1. Noun.  A wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.
  2. Verb.  To limp or hobble (as if having a wooden leg).
  3. Adjective.  Descriptive of one with such a leg. E.g. "Peg-leg Pete".

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