Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to waddle or hobble, esp. of those who have lost a leg; also used n., adv. and occas. adj.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1833		‘Dolly Dumpling’ in Tommarroo Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 348: When thy dot-and-go-one limbs bend ten times more bandy, / And hunched is thy carcase behind and before.
1857		T. Hughes Tom Brown’s School-Days 342: I feed the old magpie [...] You should see him hop off to the window, dot and go one.
1880		R. Rowe Picked Up in the Streets 151: Brandishing his broom like a broadsword, he made fierce dot-and-go-one charges on the foe.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 25: Dot-and-Go-One, a lame person.
1896		G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 248: ‘He’ll have to run dot and go one, I suppose, sir?’ ‘What, lame?’ cried Gwyn.