WOODEN LEG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wooden leg mean? 

• WOODEN LEG (noun)
  The noun WOODEN LEG has 1 sense:

1. a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

  Familiarity information: WOODEN LEG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODEN LEG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

leg; peg; pegleg; wooden leg

Hypernyms ("wooden leg" is a kind of...):

prosthesis; prosthetic device (corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body)

 Context examples 

“A Tartar,” said the man with the wooden leg.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And he is a man with a wooden leg?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Come here!” said the man with the wooden leg, repeating the gesture.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Just beyond it, however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed that he had a wooden leg.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“—Will have a thing done, I will have it done,” repeated the man with the wooden leg.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Has that fellow”—to the man with the wooden leg—“been here again?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“There's nothing against him yet,” returned the man with the wooden leg.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You will soon. Hey?” repeated the man with the wooden leg.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Before bedtime, I was fetched by the man with the wooden leg to appear before him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The man with the wooden leg eyed me all over—it didn't take long, for there was not much of me—and locked the gate behind us, and took out the key.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)