wooden-legged

English

Adjective

wooden-legged (not comparable)

  1. Having a wooden leg.
    Synonym: peg-legged
    • 1957 July, Charles E. Lee, “The Changing Face of Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 451:
      It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations.

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