A pegleg is a prosthesis, more specifically an artificial limb of carved wood fitted to the remaining stump of a human leg, as often seen in pirate movies. Peglegs have been replaced by more-modern materials, though some sports prostheses do have the same form.
[edit] Famous peg leg wearers
[edit] Historical
- François Leclerc (~1554), privateer
- Cornelis Jol, (1597–1641), privateer and admiral of the Dutch West India Company
- Peter Stuyvesant (1612–1672), Dutch director-general of New Amsterdam
- Clayton Bates aka Peg Leg Bates (1907–1998), Dancer Afro-American Amputee RAK
- Blas de Lezo (1687–1741), Spanish admiral
- Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816), American politician
- Józef Sowiński (1777–1831), Polish 19th century general
- Daniel Sullivan (~1871), Chicagoan
- Thomas L. "Pegleg" Smith (1801–1866), American prospector
- Peg Leg Sam (Arthur Jackson) (1911–1977) American blues musician
[edit] Fantasy
[edit] Not Quite Peglegs
- Long John Silver in the book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson, was missing a leg, but did not have a pegleg. He used a crutch.
- Davy Jones, a character in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, was missing a leg, but it was replaced by the leg of a crab.
- The Scotsman, in the Samurai Jack TV series, has his missing leg replaced by a machine gun.
- Cherry Darling, in the Grindhouse film Planet Terror, has a missing leg replaced by an assault rifle.
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