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peg(1) (iou)



peg noun1. LME.
[Prob. from Low Dutch: cf. Middle Dutch pegge, Dutch dial. peg plug, peg, Low German pigge peg. Cf. also Middle Low German, Middle Dutch pegel peg, pin, bolt.]
A pin or bolt of wood, metal, plastic, etc., usu. cylindrical and freq. tapered at one end, used to hold two things together or to stop up a hole, or which may be driven partly into or fastened on to a wall, the ground, etc., to hang a garment etc. from, attach a rope etc. to, or to serve as a marker in a game etc. Also, a clothes-peg (see CLOTHES). LME.
puzzle-peg, tent-peg, etc.
F. Norris The little peg holding down the cover slipped. B. Hines Billy found an empty peg and hung his jacket on it.
fig. The interval between two successive pegs; a step, a degree. Chiefly in bring down a peg (or two), take down a peg (or two), etc., humble (a person), lower the status of (a person). L16.
spec.
a. A tooth, esp. a child's tooth. Now dial. L16.
b. Any of the wooden or metal pins used to tighten or loosen (and so tune) the strings of a musical instrument. E17.
c. The pin on which a pegtop spins. M18.
d. Any of the pins used as markers in a peg-tankard (see below); a measure of beer or other alcoholic drink. Now rare. L18.
W. Owen When he'd drunk a peg.
e. A wooden, brass, or leather pin used in shoemaking to fasten the uppers to the sole etc. Now chiefly Hist. E19.
f. A cricket stump. M19.
g. = peg-leg below. Also joc., a leg. M19.
Healthy Living A good pair of pegs is..one of the most popular features of the top players.
h. Angling & Shooting. A place or area (usu. marked by a peg) allotted to a competitor from or within which to fish, shoot, etc. L19.
Angler's Mail Sean Ashby..was runner-up at the next peg with an almost identical net of fish.
i. Mountaineering. A piton. E20.
j. Commerce. A limit set on an exchange rate, share price, etc. Cf. PEG verb 6b below. M20.
Economist Indexing of oil prices and severing the dollar peg.
An implement with a pin or hook for tearing, harpooning, husking corn, etc. Also, the hook itself. Now chiefly Hist. E18.
a. A thrusting blow. obsolete exc. dial. M18.
b. A long low throw at a base in baseball. US colloq. E20.
(Pl. same.) A shilling. slang. L18-E20.
A drink of brandy or whisky and soda-water. Anglo-Indian. M19.
A segment of a citrus fruit. Cf. PIG noun1 7. W. Indies. E20.
A short blunt structure or outgrowth in a plant, an animal, etc. M20.
Phrases: a peg to hang an idea on etc., an occasion, pretext, excuse, or theme for an idea etc. a round peg in a square hole, a square peg in a round hole a person in a situation unsuited to his or her capacities or disposition, a misfit. bring down a peg (or two): see sense 2 above. CHOTA peg. crawling peg: see CRAWL verb 3. move a peg make a move, stir. off the peg (of a garment etc.) available for immediate purchase or use; ready-made. on the peg Military slang on a charge, under arrest. Scotch peg: see SCOTCH adjective. take down a peg (or two): see sense 2 above.
Comb.: peg-bag: for holding clothes-pegs; pegboard a type of perforated board used to hold pegs in some games, or for commercial displays etc. (proprietary name in the US); pegbox a structure at the head of a stringed instrument where the strings are attached to the tuning-pegs; peg doll: made from a clothes-peg or similar piece of wood; peg-house slang (a) a public-house; (b) US a brothel for male homosexuals; peg-leg colloq. (a person having) an artificial leg; peg-legged adjective having a peg-leg; transf. pegtopped; peg-tankard Hist. a tankard having pegs inserted at regular intervals to mark the quantity each person should drink.
peglike adjective resembling a peg E20.