wooden leg

1. 1.

   a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

   Synonymspeglegpegleg

   Broaderprosthesis

Questions about wooden leg

What does wooden leg mean?

wooden leg means "a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg".

What is another word for wooden leg?

Close synonyms include peg, leg, pegleg. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wooden leg a common word?

wooden leg is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.