Pegleg

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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 Peglegs have been replaced by more modern materials, though some sports prosthesis do tend to have the same form.

Contents 1 Famous peg leg wearers 1.1 Historical 1.2 Fictional 1.3 Note

[edit] Famous peg leg wearers

[edit] 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;

[edit] Fictional

• Captain Ahab, character in Moby Dick
• Silas Wegg, character in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
• Davy Jones, character in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Wirt, character in the computer games Diablo and Diablo II

[edit] Note

• Long John Silver in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson, was missing a leg, but did not have a pegleg.