peg-leg

English

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

peg-leg

noun peg-legs · peg leg · pegleg

A wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.
The user of a wooden leg.

verb peg-legs · peg-legging · peg-legged · peg leg · pegleg

To limp or hobble (having or imitating having a wooden leg). "Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue.
To appear or detect in a discontinuous fashion. With the wire line, except at great depths, the nearest parallel to the lift of a manila cable in a dry hole is "peg-legging" (alternate hitting and missing of the tools). Tools will peg-leg with the wire line, but should not be permitted to do so in a dry hole under ordinary conditions.

Translations

Every language

noun wooden leg

Español	pata de palo
Français	jambe de bois
Deutsch	Holzbein
Italiano	gamba di legno

Talk about this word

Cite this

MLA

"peg-leg." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/peg-leg. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

peg-leg. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/peg-leg

Chicago

"peg-leg." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/peg-leg.

BibTeX

@misc{peg_leg_2026,
  title = {peg-leg},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/peg-leg},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}