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What (who) is wooden leg - definition
Wooden Leg
![An [[articulated]] wood and leather prosthetic leg of a Slovenian soldier wounded in [[World War I]] (1917)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nožna proteza, 1.jpg?width=200 "An [[articulated]] wood and leather prosthetic leg of a Slovenian soldier wounded in [[World War I]] (1917)")
NORTHERN CHEYENNE WARRIOR
Peg leg; Wooden leg; Timber toe; Peg-leg; Wooden legs
Wooden Leg (Cheyenne Kâhamâxéveóhtáhe)after modern Northern Cheyenne orthography. See Cheyenne Dictionary by Fisher, Leman, Pine, Sanchez.
peg leg
LEG PROSTHESIS
Peg leg; Wooden leg; Timber toe; Peg-leg; Wooden legs
¦ noun informal an artificial leg, especially a wooden one.
Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer
![Cheyenne woman pulling a [[travois]] behind her horse. When moving camp, the travois were constructed using lodge poles. Small children travelled in the travois basket; older ones jumped on and off at will. Wooden Leg states that the Cheyenne were capable of outrunning the US cavalry travelling in this way.<ref>Wooden Leg, ''q.v.'', pp.5, 79.</ref>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cheyenne using travois.jpg?width=200 "Cheyenne woman pulling a [[travois]] behind her horse. When moving camp, the travois were constructed using lodge poles. Small children travelled in the travois basket; older ones jumped on and off at will. Wooden Leg states that the Cheyenne were capable of outrunning the US cavalry travelling in this way.<ref>Wooden Leg, ''q.v.'', pp.5, 79.</ref>")
![View looking from Battle Ridge towards Custer Hill. To the right of Custer Hill is Wooden Leg Hill, so named because Wooden Leg was at this position at one point during the Custer fight and describes the death of a [[war bonnet]] Sioux sharpshooter who was killed through exposing himself to the enemy once too often. Photograph by [[H.R. Locke]], 1894<ref>[http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/martinpate.htm "Martin Pate"], ''Friends Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield'', retrieved 24 April 2010.</ref><ref>Wooden Leg, ''q.v.'', p.236.</ref>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Littlebighorn HR Locke.jpg?width=200 "View looking from Battle Ridge towards Custer Hill. To the right of Custer Hill is Wooden Leg Hill, so named because Wooden Leg was at this position at one point during the Custer fight and describes the death of a [[war bonnet]] Sioux sharpshooter who was killed through exposing himself to the enemy once too often. Photograph by [[H.R. Locke]], 1894<ref>[http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/martinpate.htm \"Martin Pate\"], ''Friends Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield'', retrieved 24 April 2010.</ref><ref>Wooden Leg, ''q.v.'', p.236.</ref>")
BOOK BY WOODEN LEG AND THOMAS BAILEY MARQUIS
Wooden Leg, A Warrior Who Fought Custer; A Warrior Who Fought Custer
Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer is a 1931 book by Thomas Bailey Marquis about the life of a Northern Cheyenne Indian, Wooden Leg, who fought in several historic battles between United States forces and the Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where he faced the troops of George Armstrong Custer. The book is of great value to historians, not only for its eyewitness accounts of battles, but also for its detailed description of the way of life of 19th-century Plains Indians.
Examples of use of wooden leg
1. Woke up, fell out of bed, Couldn’t find my wooden leg.
2. Always able to see the funny side of things, Miss Hall immediately named her wooden leg Cuthbert.
3. "I think she‘s already known as the lady with the wooden leg because a lady came into my shop the other day saying ‘I heard the lady with the wooden leg is going to be living here‘." Another female resident said: "I do not want her here.
4. Not a prosthetic device that just fixes problems, like a wooden leg, but something that allows us to expand our capabilities, because we‘re going to merge with this technology.
5. The time has come for Israel to acknowledge that the old–fashioned hasbara (public relations) is as much use as a poultice on a wooden leg: There is no way of successfully advertising a bad, impotent policy.