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Meaning of wooden-legged | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Having a wooden leg.

not-comparable

Examples

“It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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