peg-leg

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.
  2. The user of a wooden leg.
动词 v.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.

词形变化

peg-legs plural peg leg alternative pegleg alternative peg-legs present,singular,third-person peg-legging participle,present peg-legged participle,past peg-legged past peg leg alternative pegleg alternative
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