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Peg

noun

1.

A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface. Synonym: nog.

2.

Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.. Synonym: pin.

3.

Informal terms for the leg. Synonyms: pin, stick.

4.

A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg. Synonyms: leg, pegleg, wooden leg.

5.

Regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument.

6.

A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing. Synonyms: oarlock, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin.

verb

(past & past part. pegged; pres. part. pegging)

1.

Succeed in obtaining a position. Synonyms: nail, nail down.

2.

Pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into.

3.

Fasten or secure with a wooden pin. Synonym: peg down.

4.

Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations.

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"Peg" Quotes from Famous Books

... wait for us in the shade," said her husband. "We'll knock off for the day when we reach that dolerite dike above the waterhole.—If you are ready, Ashton, we'll peg along." ...

— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet

... Whitlow, beadle of the parish of St. Scraggs? What a man-beast was Whitlow! how would he, like an avenging ogre, scatter apple-women! how would he foot little boys guilty of peg-tops and marbles! how would he puff at a beggar—puff like the picture of the north wind in a spelling book! What a huge heavy purple face he had, as though all the blood of his body were stagnant in his cheeks! and then when he spoke, would he not growl and snuffle like ...

— History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

... ta archaiotera Dionysia te dodecate poieitai en meni Anthesterini. sper kai oi ap' Athenain Ines eti kai nun Page 58 nomixousin. idrutai de kai alla iera taute archaia. kai te crene te nen men tn turannn aut okeuasautn Enneacroun kaloumene to de palai phanern tn pegn ousn Kallirron nomasmene ekeien te eggus ouse ta pleistou exia echrnto, kai nun eti apo tou archaiou pra te gamicn kai alla tn iern nomixetai ...

— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various

... several things to drink—so many that my inventive faculties were dulled next morning, and I had some little difficulty in explaining to Mrs. D'Odd why it was that I hung my boots and spectacles upon a peg along with my other garments before retiring to rest. The new hopes excited by the confident manner in which my agent had undertaken the commission caused me to rise superior to alcoholic reaction, and I paced about the rambling corridors and old-fashoned rooms, picturing to myself ...

— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Mystic-Humorous Stories • Various

... with them, but did not seek for riches, and more often drew away into the hills to find some newer place unspoiled by man. But again and again he returned; for no fire is like the old fire, and no trail like the old trail. And at last it seemed as if he had driven his tent-peg in the Long Valley for ever; for, from among the women who came, he chose one comely and wise and kind, and for five years the world grew older, and Felion did not know it. When he danced his little daughter on his knee, he felt that he had found ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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