An artificial or prosthetic leg. Frequently with the material from which the leg is made specified, esp. in wooden leg (see wooden, adj.…

(a) an artificial leg made of wood; also figurative; (b) a beam upon which tanners dress skins.

A wooden leg.

An artificial leg, esp. a wooden leg. Also: a person who has such a leg. Also in extended use (see quot. 1971).

a wooden leg.

colloquial. A wooden leg; (also more generally) a leg. Cf. peg leg, n., pin, n.1 5a.

transferred. In plural. The two upright posts of a gallows; also humorously, in singular, a man's leg; particularly, a wooden leg.

Used humorously of other things. a wooden leg, or any contrivance to supply the place of a disabled leg.

Surgery. A simple, typically unjointed, prosthesis for the leg; (also) the part of a lower limb prosthesis extending between the artificial foot and…