peg-leg

plural peg-legs · alternative peg leg · alternative pegleg

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

present singular third person peg-legs · participle present peg-legging · participle past peg-legged · past peg-legged · alternative peg leg · alternative pegleg

1. 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.

   2014 -, Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster, →ISBN, page .41

2. geographyTo appear or detect in a discontinuous fashion.

   Typically high velocity lithological units like salt, anhydrites or basalts are the dominating monolithic units where they occur. The chances of energy bouncing peg legging within them is a long shot.

   2017, Enwenode Onajite, Practical Solutions to Integrated Oil and Gas Reservoir Analysis, →ISBN

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   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.

   1919, Bulletin - Volumes 179-183, page 185