A wooden leg, or leg for the nonce. (See Jury Mast.)
“I took the leg off with my saw … seared the stump … and made a jury leg that he shambles about with as well as ever he did.”—Sir W. Scott: The Pirate, chap. xxxiv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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