Peg

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A small cylindrical or tapered pin, as of wood, used to fasten things or plug a hole.
  • noun. A similar pin forming a projection that may be used as a support or boundary marker.
  • noun. One of the pins of a stringed instrument that are turned to tighten or slacken the strings so as to regulate their pitch.
  • noun. A degree or notch, as in estimation.
  • noun. A drink of liquor.
  • noun. A low and fast throw made to put a base runner out.
  • noun. A leg, especially a wooden one.
  • intransitive verb. To fasten or plug with a peg or pegs.
  • intransitive verb. To designate or mark by means of a peg or pegs.
  • intransitive verb. To fix (a price) at a certain level or within a certain range.
  • intransitive verb. To classify; categorize.
  • intransitive verb. To throw.
  • intransitive verb. To work steadily; persist.
  • idiom. (take (someone) down a peg) To reduce the pride of; humble.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pith (a frog); destroy the brain of, previous to certain experiments.
  • Same as to peg out .
  • To mark out by pegs, as a miner's claim, each peg bearing the owner's name.
  • In croquet, to put out by driving against the winning peg: said of a ball.
  • noun. One of the cells or natural divisions into which an orange may be separated after removing the skin.
  • noun. A pointed pin of wood, metal, or other material.
  • noun. A pin which serves to transmit power or perform any other function in machinery, etc.
  • noun. A projecting pin on which to hang anything.
  • noun. A small wedge-shaped projecting piece of hard wood fixed to a jewelers’ board, upon which the workman performs most of his operations.
  • noun. A pin used in the game of cribbage to mark the points.
  • noun. A pin thrust or driven into a hole, and generally left projecting, as a tent-peg, used in fastening a tent to the ground, or a vent-peg, used to stop the vent of a cask.
  • noun. A foot or leg. Compare pin in like sense.
  • noun. A pin or point fastened to a pole or string, used to spear or harpoon turtles; a turtle-peg.
  • noun. The nag or wooden ball used in the game of shinty.
  • noun. A stroke; a blow.
  • noun. A drink made of soda-water poured upon spirit, usually whisky or brandy.The name originated with British officers in India.
  • To thrust or drive pegs into for the purpose of fastening; fasten by means of pegs; furnish with pegs: as, to peg boots or shoes.
  • To spear or harpoon (the green turtle) by means of the turtle-peg.
  • To fix (a market price), and prevent fluctuation, by buying all that is offered at that price, thus preventing any lower quotations from being made, or selling all that the market will take at that price, thus preventing higher quotations.
  • To work or strive persistently: generally followed by away or along.
  • To use the turtle-peg: as, to peg for a living.
  • To depart; die.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away.
  • transitive verb. To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; ; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
  • transitive verb. To score with a peg, as points in the game.
  • transitive verb. To identify; to recognize.
  • transitive verb. To throw (a ball).
  • noun. A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc..
  • noun. A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext.
  • noun. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
  • noun. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
  • noun. A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase “To take one down a peg.”
  • noun. A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water.
  • noun. a hard throw, especially one made to put out a baserunner.
  • noun. a board with multiple small holes into which pegs can be inserted in different arrays so as to form hooks from which to hang tools or other objects for convenient access; it is typically hung from a wall in a workshop.
  • Word Usage
    "There were many of his kind so maimed, and the wolfers, abbreviating the term peg-legs, called these three-footed ones "pegs.""
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    Greg  Gregg  Meg  Reg  beg  
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    pegged  pegging  
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    pegged  pegging  pegs