pegleg
/ˈpɛɡˌlɛɡ/
noun
- A wooden artificial leg, typically used by someone who has lost a leg below the knee.
- The old pirate story described a captain with a pegleg and a parrot on his shoulder.
- After the accident, he learned to walk again using a pegleg.
- Museums sometimes display historical peglegs made of oak or maple.
- A person who wears a wooden artificial leg.
- In the film, the pegleg was a tough but kind-hearted sailor.
- The children were fascinated by the pegleg who told them tales of the sea.
- He was known in the village as the pegleg who could still dance at festivals.