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Webster 1913 Edition
Peg
Peg
(pĕg)
, Noun.
[OE.
pegge
; cf. Sw. pigg
, Dan. pig
a point, prickle, and E. peak
.] 1.
A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.;
as, a shoe
. peg
2.
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 upon3.
One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
Shak.
4.
One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
5.
A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase “To take one down a peg.”
To screw papal authority to the highest
peg
. Barrow.
And took your grandees down a
peg
. Hudibras.
Peg
(pĕg)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pegged
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pegging
.] 1.
To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs;
as, to
; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely. peg
shoesI will rend an oak
And
And
peg
thee in his knotty entrails. Shakespeare
2.
(Cribbage)
To score with a peg, as points in the game;
as, she
. pegged
twelwe points[Colloq.]
Peg
,Verb.
I.
To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; – usually with on, at, or away;
as, to
. peg
away at a taskWebster 1828 Edition
Peg
PEG
,Noun.
1.
A small pointed piece of wood used in fastening boards or other work of wood, &c. It does the office of a nail. The word is applied only to small pieces of wood pointed; to the larger pieces thus pointed we give the name of pins, and pins in ship carpentry are called tree-nails or trenails. Coxe, in his travels in Russia, speaks of poles or beams fastened into the ground with pegs.2.
The pins of an instrument on which the strings are strained.3.
A nickname for Margaret.To take a peg lower, to depress; to lower.
PEG
,Verb.
T.