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Definition of peg leg in English: peg legnoun informal 1An artificial leg, especially a wooden one. Example sentencesExamples - The story goes that during construction, Maxwell hobbled around Southern Hills on a peg leg, wobbling like Charlie Chaplin.
- Every morning, he left home on his peg leg and hobbled noisily into town to beg; he would return in the evening.
- It seems that whenever she gets a little tired of hopping with her peg leg, she will flop wherever she happens to be.
- The uneven step of the man told Will that he had a peg leg.
- The soldier notes that the pirate has a peg leg, a hook and an eye patch.
- Morris was tall and handsome, which helped him cut a swath; in a perverse way, the peg leg apparently helped too.
- His shoulders relaxed, and he wiped his hands on the towel draped over his shoulder and stumped forward on his peg leg.
- I would throw a hoop over a stick at the carnival and then a man with one eye and a peg leg would give me a goldfish.
- I remember seeing him at 4-years-old in Fishgard, Wales with a peg leg and a big top hat.
- Everything in the world is a toy to your dogs; they see absolutely no difference between a rubber pink chewable ring and your new peg leg!
- I'd just like to let you know that I have a peg leg now!
- The former shows a man with a peg leg sitting in a gold-tasseled chair and staring into space.
- Across from the parrot was a statue of a pirate captain, one eye covered with a patch, his red coat covered in brocade and one of his legs, predictably, replaced by a wooden peg leg.
- He hobbled over to her dragging his rags stumbling sometimes on his peg leg.
- Crowe's character is portrayed as such an impossible underdog that I'm surprised they didn't give him polio or a peg leg, or, better yet, no arms.
- Surrounded as I was by glass eyes and peg legs, this did not seem strange.
- Footsteps sounded on the old floorboards, one set shuffling, and a steady thud that might be a peg leg or a cane.
- Staff from Thames Water are preparing parrots, peg legs and eye patches for their 10th charity pantomime.
- 1.1derogatory A person with an artificial leg.
Example sentencesExamples - By that time, I was purely convinced that this Miles fellow was surely a peg leg of sorts with like, an eye patch and messed up teeth, and a bad chili-bowl haircut.
Definition of peg leg in US English: peg legnounˈpeɡ ˌleɡˈpɛɡ ˌlɛɡ informal 1An artificial leg, especially a wooden one. Example sentencesExamples - Crowe's character is portrayed as such an impossible underdog that I'm surprised they didn't give him polio or a peg leg, or, better yet, no arms.
- The soldier notes that the pirate has a peg leg, a hook and an eye patch.
- His shoulders relaxed, and he wiped his hands on the towel draped over his shoulder and stumped forward on his peg leg.
- I would throw a hoop over a stick at the carnival and then a man with one eye and a peg leg would give me a goldfish.
- He hobbled over to her dragging his rags stumbling sometimes on his peg leg.
- Across from the parrot was a statue of a pirate captain, one eye covered with a patch, his red coat covered in brocade and one of his legs, predictably, replaced by a wooden peg leg.
- Surrounded as I was by glass eyes and peg legs, this did not seem strange.
- It seems that whenever she gets a little tired of hopping with her peg leg, she will flop wherever she happens to be.
- Staff from Thames Water are preparing parrots, peg legs and eye patches for their 10th charity pantomime.
- Every morning, he left home on his peg leg and hobbled noisily into town to beg; he would return in the evening.
- Morris was tall and handsome, which helped him cut a swath; in a perverse way, the peg leg apparently helped too.
- I'd just like to let you know that I have a peg leg now!
- The story goes that during construction, Maxwell hobbled around Southern Hills on a peg leg, wobbling like Charlie Chaplin.
- I remember seeing him at 4-years-old in Fishgard, Wales with a peg leg and a big top hat.
- The uneven step of the man told Will that he had a peg leg.
- Everything in the world is a toy to your dogs; they see absolutely no difference between a rubber pink chewable ring and your new peg leg!
- The former shows a man with a peg leg sitting in a gold-tasseled chair and staring into space.
- Footsteps sounded on the old floorboards, one set shuffling, and a steady thud that might be a peg leg or a cane.
- 1.1derogatory A person with an artificial leg.
Example sentencesExamples - By that time, I was purely convinced that this Miles fellow was surely a peg leg of sorts with like, an eye patch and messed up teeth, and a bad chili-bowl haircut.
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