Pegs
[peɡz]
Examples
- He makes tremendous rows,--roars, and pegs at the floor with some frightful instrument. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- These iron plates were usually cast in lengths of six feet, and they were secured to transverse wooden sleepers by spikes and oaken pegs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Other forms of pegs followed, such as the metal screw pegs, and machines to cut them off from a continuous spiral wire from which they were made. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Making and applying pegs by hand was too slow work, and machines were at once contrived for making them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As one invention necessitates and begets others, so special forms of machines for sawing and working up wood into pegs were devised. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Cheap shoes could only be made by roughly fastening the soles to the uppers by wooden pegs, whose row of projecting points within has made many a man and boy do unnecessary penance. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Shift the pegs a little, he said to himself, and Mr. Brooke might be in the Cabinet, while I was Under-Secretary. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As a matter of fact, the drawn curtain disclosed nothing but three or four suits of clothes hanging from a line of pegs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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