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Peg top   /pɛg tɑp/   Listen
Peg top

noun
1.
A pear-shaped top made of wood with a metal center pin.





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"Peg top" Quotes from Famous Books



... not by what is done for boys, but by what they do; the adjustment of play to sex; the determination of the proper average age of maximal zest in and good from sandbox, ring-toss, bean-bag, shuffle-board, peg top, charity, funeral play, prisoner's base, hill-dill; the value and right use of apparatus, and of rabbits, pigeons, bees, and a small menagerie in the playground; tan-bark, clay, the proper alternation of ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall
... in a little room up three pair of stairs, preparing "copy" for the first number of "The Peg Top, or the Buzz of the Nation." He hasn't got black eyes now; all the blackness of his person, if not of his character, has settled in his fingers, and they are black with ink. Not all settled, for a few daubs of ...
— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams


Words linked to "Peg top" :   spinning top, whirligig, teetotum, top


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