peg-leg
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The user of a wooden leg.
verb
To appear or detect in a discontinuous fashion.
Example Sentences
- ""Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue."
- "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."
- "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."