peg-leg meaning: definition, quotations

peg-leg

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.2014 -, Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster, →ISBN, page .41:

Geography, Geology, Natural sciences 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.1919, Bulletin - Volumes 179-183, page 185:
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.2017, Enwenode Onajite, Practical Solutions to Integrated Oil and Gas Reservoir Analysis, →ISBN: