noun. The act of fastening with a peg or pegs, or of furnishing with pegs.

noun. Pegs collectively, or material for pegs.

noun. A beating; a drubbing.

noun. The process or method of catching turtles with the peg.

noun. Dogged or plodding perseverance in work.

noun. In harvesting tobacco, the driving of a peg into the cut stalk to hang it upon while curing. For other methods see spearing, splitting.

noun. The act or process of fastening with pegs.

verb. Present participle of peg.

"I am simply asking how one can establish an objective moral truth with the same degree of certainty that science achieves, say, in pegging the number of protons in a calcium nucleus at 20."

begging  egging  legging  

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