]]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 Peglegs have been replaced by more modern materials, though some sports prosthesis do tend to have the same form.
Famous peg leg wearers
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 Sowi?ski (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 missin
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PegLeg