peg-leg
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3VERB + PEG-LEG
back
PEG-LEG + NOUN
peg-legging
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with
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noun
A wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.
The user of a wooden leg.
verb
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.
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.
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3"Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue.
WiktionaryWith 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
WiktionaryTypically 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.
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