Peg
[peg] or [pɛɡ]
Definition
(noun.) a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
(noun.) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.
(noun.) regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument.
(noun.) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
(noun.) small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc..
(verb.) stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations; 'The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar'.
(verb.) fasten or secure with a wooden pin; 'peg a tent'.
(verb.) pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into.
Typed by Angelo--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
(n.) A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
(n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
(n.) One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
(n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
(v. t.) To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
(v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
(v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
Typed by Eliza
Definition
n. a wooden pin for fastening boards or the soles of shoes: one of the pins on which the strings of a musical instrument are stretched: a reason or excuse for action: a drink of soda-water with brandy &c.: a degree or step.—v.t. to fasten with a peg: to keep up the market price by buying or selling at a fixed price: to make points during the game of cribbage before the show of hands.—v.i. to work with unremitting effort:—pr.p. peg′ging; pa.t. and pa.p. pegged.—ns. Peg′-fiched an English game played with pegs or pointed sticks; Peg′-float a machine for rasping away the ends of pegs inside shoes.—adj. Pegged fashioned of or furnished with pegs.—ns. Peg′ging the act of fastening with a peg: pegs collectively: a thrashing: determined perseverance in work; Peg′-leg a wooden leg of the simplest form or one who walks on such; Peg′-strip a ribbon of wood cut to the width &c. of a shoe-peg; Peg′-tank′ard a drinking-vessel having each one's share marked off by a knob; Peg′-top a child's plaything made to spin round by winding a string round it and then rapidly pulling it off: (pl.) a kind of trousers wide at the top and narrow at the ankles.—adj. shaped like a top.—Peg away to keep continually working.—Take down a peg to take down to humble.
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Examples
- The vote has become a convenient peg upon which to hang aspirations that are not at all sure of their own meaning. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His helmet hung on a peg and his face showed clearly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Meaning sir,' observed Wegg, with a propitiatory face to draw him out, and with another peg at his friend and brother, 'in the way of money? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Very good,' said he, taking his hat from its peg, and putting a pair of handcuffs in his pocket as if they were his gloves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I foresee there is money to be made out of this, besides taking that fellow down a peg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Ten steps with each foot took me along parallel with the wall of the house, and again I marked my spot with a peg. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Snagsby pulls off his sleeves and his grey coat, pulls on his black coat, takes his hat from its peg. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- 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.
- Fifty-five Million Pairs of Boots and Shoes then Annually Pegged. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He was a slow sailer on a wind of happiness, but he took a cross cut for the rendezvous, and pegged away as if he were scoring furiously at cribbage. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Pegged rollers were the earliest form for this purpose, and later corrugated rollers and power-worked hammers were employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1858 also, about the same time the Sturtevant pegging machine was introduced, the shoe-sewing machine was developed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He was perpetually pegging at the floor the moment she left his sight. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- What with rum and pepper,--and pepper and rum,--I should think his pegging must be nearly over. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He devised a pegging machine, and out of his scanty earnings and at odd hours, with much pain and labour, and by borrowing money, he finally completed it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The machine made what was called peg wood, a long ribbon strip of seasoned wood, sharpened on one edge and designed to be fed into the machine for pegging shoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The pegging machines and sewing machines worked a revolution in shoemaking. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I see you pegging away at your books, no, I mean studying hard. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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