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wooden leg

NOUN
  1. a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

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  • Well, not literally -- but I was gazing at a fat Zenith with wooden legs when he mimed "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on American Bandstand in 1980, then peculiarly told Dick Clark he played "a thousand" instruments. Gregory Weinkauf: Happy Birthday to Prince!
  • On the right side of the carpet opposite the turquoise walls, three massive blocks of unevenly cut Styrofoam were supported by spindly two-by-fours and a single turned wooden leg.
  • I couldn't help but to notice a small, dirty tabby cat sitting attentively by a wooden leg of a jewellery stand.
  • To dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean yourself in a false way to your friends. What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams
  • You have had experience of the old - established Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers, when carved; of its little dishes of pastry -- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries. The Uncommercial Traveller
  • Dog cloner Joyce McKinney sought over burglary to fund horse's wooden leg (Thanks, Teresa!) Boing Boing
  • 'Okay, so one pirate says to the other," Hey, matey, how'd you get that wooden leg? OFF THE CHART
  • Most reclining chairs were fitted with footrests, some were added when one wished to recline, others permanently attached and recessed in the chair rail, sometimes to be supported by wooden legs or metal braces when in use.
  • So saying, he rolled, with a nautical gait, towards the door by which the domestic had re-entered the room, and having reached the stairfoot, and finding himself alone, he added, with a sudden snarl, 'I'd like to give three of ye a chance of earning a wooden leg anyhow -- coming into my house and guzzling my best beer the very minute my back's turned on ye.' VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea
  • There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than five woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden legs, each about twenty foot high.
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