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Definition of "wooden leg" []

  • A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "wooden leg" in a sentence
  • "And there—jutting out from under the edge of the trench coat—was a wooden leg that ended in a roller skate."
  • "Brown began walking slowly towards Hornblower, Bush clinging to him, the leather-tipped end of the wooden leg falling with a thump on the floor at each effort to take a stride with it — Bush was swinging it too high, while his sound leg sagged at the knee in its weakness."
  • "There they found countless abandoned rifles and cannons as well as a dungeon containing a half-crazed woman with a wooden leg and a long, black trench coat, plus a tent with a sign on it that said DO NOT DISTURB in French."
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