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Peggy - meaning man with peg leg.
In days of sail if a seaman lost a leg he could no longer work aloft and often served as a messman.
Nowadays he would be fitted with a specially designed prosthetic limb to enable him to ascend into the rigging following months of special training of course.
But the messman or ‘mess steward’ is still called a Peggy.
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The Mad Landsman
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