Pegleg

A "pegleg" is a type of artificial limb (Prosthesis). Peglegs are typified as a hand carved wooden peg fitted to a stump, as often seen in pirate movies. Peglegs have been replaced by more modern materials, though some sports prosthesis do tend to have the same form.

Historical

 * François Leclerc (~1554), pirate
 * Peter Stuyvesant (1612-1672), Dutch director-general of New Amsterdam
 * 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

Fictional

 * Captain Ahab, character in Moby Dick
 * Silas Wegg, character in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
 * Wirt, character in the computer games Diablo and Diablo II
 * Flatliner, character in the MMORPG EVE:Online

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 a machine gun.

Railroads

 * Fulton Chain Railroad also known as the "Peg Leg" from its wooden rails.
 * Bradford and Foster Brook Railway also known as the "Peg Leg" from its wooden support piles.

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