pegn.1
/pɛɡ/, U.S. /pɛɡ/ I. A wooden pin, and related uses.
1.
a. A short pin or bolt, originally made of wood and later also of metal, plastic, etc., typically tapering slightly at one end, and used to fasten two things together, to plug a hole, or, being driven into a hole in a wall, the ground, or another surface and left partially projecting, to hang up clothes on, attach ropes to, etc., or to mark a position. Also: = clothes-peg n. at clothes n. Compounds 2.Frequently with distinguishing word, as hat-peg, etc.; for established compounds see the first element.See also off-the-peg adv. and adj.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg
preenOE
prickOE
kevel1251
pina1275
prag1354
key1434
peg1440
tholec1440
thole-pinc1440
lock1514
cotterel1570
pivot1730
pinning1742
steady pin1791
gib1795
needle1811
lockdown1832
cotter1842
peglet1890
pushpin1903
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > a bung or plug
bungc1440
tampiona1475
peg1593
plug1618
picket1868
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that by which something is suspended > peg or nail
naileOE
percha1325
knagc1440
spirget1567
crotch1573
peg1598
spirket1647
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > pin for scoring
peg1857
spillikin1858
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun] > peg
tent-pin1763
tent-stake1862
tent-peg1864
peg1879
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 390 Pegge, or pynne of tymbyr, cavilla.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 93v A Pegg [1483 BL Add. 89074 Pege], cauilla, cauillula.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 253/1 Pegge of woode, cheuille.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 24 May it be as a pegge in a vessell, to broche blood with plucking out.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Any ring or peg fastned in the wall to tie horses to.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 39 As it is with an Archer..when he hath hit the white or cloven the peg.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall 14 A tapering Peg of brass.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 403. ¶10 His Hat that hung upon a Wooden Pegg by him.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 293 There are pegs and pins in a building as well as beams and columns.
1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 718/2 A cribbage-board..possesses holes for the scoring of each party, and the scoring is effected by means of pegs.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxvii. 317 The tents were torn from their pegs and blown away.
1901 F. Norris Octopus i. v. 205 The little peg holding down the cover slipped, the basket fell sideways, opening as it fell.
1952 E. Templeton Island of Desire i. xii. 87 She gathered up her school books and took her hat and coat from the peg with trembling fingers.
2002 Mirror (Nexis) 3 July 17 My washing line, which hasn't seen a piece of clothing or a peg in weeks, is sagging forlornly.
b. a square peg in a round hole and variants: a person in a situation unsuited to his or her abilities or disposition; a misfit; (also) something in an inappropriate place or context. Also a round peg in a square hole. Similarly a round peg in a round hole, etc.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > instance of > that which is out of place > person(s)
horse-marine1823
a square peg in a round hole1836
misfit1860
odd-come-short1873
1836 A. W. Fonblanque in Examiner 6 Nov. 705/2 Sir Robert Peel was a smooth round peg, in a sharp-cornered square hole, and Lord Lyndhurst is a rectangular square-cut peg, in a smooth round hole.
1859 Times 18 Aug. 9/4 The placing of me in that particular office would have been really putting a square peg in a square hole.
1866 Times 5 July 8/4 It seems possible that in his place at the Poor Law Board a round peg has for once been fitted into a round hole.
1910 H. H. Richardson Getting of Wisdom xxv. 270 She went out from school with the uncomfortable sense of being a square peg, which fitted into none of the round holes of her world.
1988 P. Carey Oscar & Lucinda xxiii. 91 I have produced a proud square peg in the full knowledge that..there are nothing but round holes.
2004 Independent (Nexis) 27 Jan. 21 Here characterisation was achieved with a flourish, as was the technically accomplished job of slotting the round peg of painting into the square hole of television.
c. slang (originally and chiefly Military). on the peg: on a charge, under arrest; (more generally) in trouble with authority. Cf. peg v. 15. Now rare. the peg (rare): the fact of being put on a charge.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > under arrest [phrase]
under (an) arrestc1386
on the peg1888
1888 R. Kipling Soldiers Three 26 Whin I am servin' my time, I'm undher the Articles av War, an' can be whipped on the peg for thim.
1916 D. Hankey Student in Arms iii. 51 The corporal..announced that if he did not go in two minutes he would ‘put him on the peg’, which means report him to the captain for refusing to obey an order.
1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/1 ‘On the peg’, to be charged with a ‘crime’. ‘You'll be for it’, the sergeant's threat of ‘the peg’.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 53 Peg, on the, in trouble, on the mat.
1942 A. Lewis in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories (1976) 55 The snoop has pegged you for being out of camp last night when you were on duty. I'm on the peg, too.
2.
a. Music. In a stringed instrument: a pin attached to one end of a string, which is turned in order to adjust the tension of the string in tuning; a tuning peg. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > parts generally > tuning-peg
pina1475
peg1589
wrest-pin1783
temper-pin1788
tuning-peg1842
tuning-pin1877
1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1090 Pinnes, or pegges, whereby the stringes of an instrument are set higher, or lower.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 201 O, you are well tun'd now, But I'le set downe the pegs [1623 pegg], that make this musique. View more context for this quotation
a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 27 Popes of high spirit and bold face..did ever aspire to scrue Papall Authority to the highest peg.
1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer iv, in Wks. (1721) II. 65 He takes a Base-Viol, and while he is Tuning, one of the Bullies unwinds the Pegs over his Head.
1737 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Peg, a small Piece of Wood used sometimes to screw up or tighten the Strings of a Musical Instrument.
1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 215 Come, screw the pegs wi' tunefu' cheep, And o'er the thairms be tryin.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 442/2 String instruments of the violin, guitar, and pianoforte class are tuned by altering the tension of the strings at the end where they are carried round a moveable peg.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 127 My love of life screwed to the topmost peg.
1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xxi The effortless ease of a skilled musician who makes fast both ends of a piece of twined cat-gut and strains it to a new peg in his lyre.
1990 Classic CD July 38/3 Spruce for the front of the soundbox..ebony and rosewood for the fingerboard and the pegs.
b. Any of a set of pins fixed at intervals in a drinking vessel to indicate the quantity each drinker is to drink. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > vessel with measuring pegs > measuring peg
pin?a1300
peg1617
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 87 When each receiues the pot..they curiously looke upon certaine pegs or markes set within of purpose, that they may deuide the drinke by the equall ballance of Justice.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 183 The first person that drank was to empty the tankard to the first peg or pin; the second..to the next pin, etc.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend iv. 193 Come, old fellow, drink down to your peg! But do not drink any farther, I beg!
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iv. 138 We ourselves drink here by the peg at midday.
1998 J. Murray Art of Whisky 72 Originally, though, a peg was also one of a set of pins set inside a drinking vessel which measured the amount each person was allowed to drink.
c. Shoemaking. A pin of wood or (later) brass, etc., used to fasten the upper of a shoe to the sole, or to join together the lifts of the heel. Now historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > nail for fastening parts of
shoe-nailc725
sparablea1627
sparrow-bill1629
boot-naila1661
peg1714
shoe pin1714
shoe peg1854
shoe-bill1861
1714 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus (ed. 3) I. x. xv. 13 Some had Hare Lips,..Some squinted, some for Teeth, had Snags At least as long as Cobler's Pegs.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Peggin'-awl, a kind of awl used by shoemakers for entering the pegs or wooden pins driven into the heels of shoes.
1872 Japanese in Amer. 206 Shoes..are fastened on the bottom by wooden pegs, thereby creating peg factories.
1935 Times 16 Nov. 8/2 In Ireland it [sc. the wood of the spindle tree] was called peg-wood, being used by shoemakers for making pegs.
2002 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 8 June t1 He had quit school at 10 and gone to work in his father's shoemaking shop... Slocum's job was banging pegs into shoes.
d. The metal pin on which a pegtop spins. Now historical and rare.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > peg-top > specific part
peg1735
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Peg,..the Name of a small Piece of Steel or Iron put into Childrens Tops.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 50 Winding up a top badly grooved, so that the string bunches down over the peg.
1828 Boy's Own Bk. 12 A top with a long peg is best at this game.
1870 J. G. Wood Mod. Playmate 159 Lay the wetted end along the top just above the peg.
1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. 186 Holding it by one hand, he drove the peg of his own top as far as he could into the crown of the victim top.
1906 G. R. Sims Living London (rev. ed.) III. 269/1 If the peg of your top measures less than an average thumbnail it is a ‘mounter’ and may be thrown over the house.
e. Cricket colloquial. A stump.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > wicket > stump
stump1730
peg1865
1865 Bell's Life in London 1 July 9/2 Griffith then bowling Davis's centre peg.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 July 12/1 He was beaten by another fine ball from Smith, which, after pitching well outside the off peg, broke across the wicket and hit the top of the leg stump.
1972 R. Robinson Wildest Tests xi. 120 Cunis swung one so late and so far that it hit Gandotra's leg peg.
2003 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 12 Aug. 43 Martin Cooksley was out in the second over, followed by Kevin Willcock who had his leg-peg knocked over by Mike Smith.
f. A wedge-shaped piece of wood projecting from a jeweller's board.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > [noun] > jeweller's tools
muffler1688
polishing mill1757
spit-sticker1837
slitting-mill1850
smoothing-mill1850
gem-peg1853
jewel setter1875
needle file1875
peg1879
stake1884
sharp1903
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 349/1 In the centre of the hollow is a small wedge-shaped projecting piece of wood, called the peg, on which he performs all his operations.
1978 C. A. Jarvis Jewellery Manuf. & Repair i. 3 Each work-place is a semi-circular recess in the bench..fitted with a boxwood peg or pin against which to work.
g. Railways colloquial. A mechanical signal; a signal post.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > types of signal
switch-signal1838
semaphore signal1845
distance signal1848
home signal1857
block signal1864
dwarf signal1870
distant signal1874
switch-lantern1875
distant1881
spectacle1881
switch-lamp1898
banjo1902
peg1911
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxiii. 288 Recollec' that cove with a red beard we come on camped by the railway peg near Nine Mile Tank?
1971 D. J. Smith Discovering Railwayana x. 58 Peg, signal.
1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Peg, a railway semaphore signal, or signal post.
h. Mountaineering. = piton n. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > artificial aid > types of
runner1688
runner ring1791
ice axec1800
alpenstock1829
rope1838
climbing-iron1857
piolet1868
snap-link1875
prickera1890
middleman('s) knot (also loop, noose, etc.)1892
chock1894
glacier-rope1897
piton1898
run-out1901
belaying-pin1903
snap-ring1903
ironmongery1904
line1907
Tricouni1914
ice claw1920
peg1920
sling1920
ice piton1926
ice hammer1932
karabiner1932
rock piton1934
thread belay1935
mugger1941
running belay1941
piton hammer1943
sky-hook1951
etrier1955
pied d'éléphant1956
rope sling1957
piton runner1959
bong1960
krab1963
rurp1963
ice screw1965
nut1965
traverse line1965
jumar1966
knife-blade1968
tie-off1968
rock peg1971
whammer1971
Whillans whammer1971
Whillans harness1974
1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft iv. 201 My party has taken pegs three times in all, as a precaution, and used one once (on a new descent).
1946 J. E. Q. Barford Climbing in Brit. ii. 25 Pegs or large nails with rings in one end, which are driven into rocks to provide an anchor where no natural one exists.
1987 J. Curran K2 (1989) i. vii. 92 Kurt had had trouble in getting pegs into the friable rock and ice.
i. A pin marking a limit or maximum on a dial or gauge.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > graduated instruments > pin or line limit or maximum
peg1927
red line1941
1927 C. A. Lindbergh ‘We’ iv. 55 At the end of five minutes the needle was crowding the peg at 115°.
1953 C. A. Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis ii. vi. 336 The earth-inductor compass needle is halfway to the peg!
1976 J. K. Lieberman & N. S. Rhodes Compl. CB Handbk. vi. 133 On the peg, legal speed limit.
2003 Columbian (Vancouver, Washington) (Nexis) 30 Nov. c9 As with other challenges in life, such as when the gas gauge needle bounces on the ‘E’ peg, my preferred strategy was to speed up.
j. colloquial. A footrest on a motorcycle or stunt bicycle; cf. foot peg n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] > parts of
carrier1911
pillion1911
stand1918
drivetrain1938
kick-stand1947
twist grip1954
sissy bar1959
peg1965
hardtail1971
tank bag1974
top box1976
cockpit1993
1965 Mademoiselle Feb. 161/2 Pegs, what person sitting in back on a bike puts his feet on... To drag pegs, when peg drags on the ground upon cornering.
1975 Cycle World Mag. Jan. 77 Jump forward and up just as the rear wheel hits the rock or log. This takes the weight off the pegs and the bike for an instant, and lets it go over things more easily.
1983 Dirt Bike Rider July 39/3 Lejeune's biggest mistake was achieved with his feet firmly on the pegs of his Honda.
2000 R. Barger et al. Hell's Angel ix. 167 I stuck my leg out and put my foot on his foot peg, and pushed Terry home while he leaned his bike into mine.
2001 D. Parr Extreme Bicycle Stunt Riding Moves 14 This stunt is called a whiplash. Riders put one foot on the front peg. They put the other foot on the back peg on the same side.
II. Extended general uses.
3.
a. The interval between two successive positions, such as could be marked by pegs; a step, a degree. Esp. in to take (a person) down a peg (or two) and variants: to lower (a person) in his or her own, or the general, estimation; to lower a person's view of his or her own status or ability; to humble, chasten, snub. Also to take (a person) a peg lower. Similarly occasionally to come down a peg. [Perhaps compare figurative use in sense 2a. Several other origins have been suggested (such as a connection with pins marking a level in a cup and intended to regulate drinking habits, or with the tying of naval flag ropes to pegs (a higher peg hence denoting higher status)), but none is completely convincing.]
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the mind > emotion > humility > be humble [verb (intransitive)] > become humble
to come downa1382
meeka1400
meekena1500
let fall one's crest1531
to come (also get) off one's perch1568
to come down a peg1589
lower1837
to come off the roof1883
to climb down1887
deflate1912
to come, etc., off one's high horse1920
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > become degraded or debased [verb (intransitive)]
to come down a peg1589
derogatea1616
lower1837
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet To Father & two Sonnes. sig. A2 Now haue at you all my gaffers of the rayling religion, tis I that must take you a peg lower.
1625 J. Mead Let. 22 Oct. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 58 A-talking of the brave times that would be shortly..when..the Bishop of Chester, that bore himself so high, should be hoisted a peg higher to his little ease.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 105 We still have worsted all your holy Tricks,..And took your Grandees down a peg.
1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 24 Feb. (1885) I. 336 You'll bring me down a peg lower in my Conceit.
1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper II. 247 An opportunity for letting him down a peg or two.
1830 J. Neal Authorship v. 45 Little as it [sc. the window] is, it was never made to open, I see; I can't move it a peg—neither up nor down, nor sideways.
1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 17 633/2 Some folks who are so high will have to come down a peg.
1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella II. iii. iv. 324 I must take that proud girl down a peg.
1955 V. Nabokov Lolita II. iii. 46 I could never make her read any other book than the so-called comic books or stories in magazines for American females. Any literature a peg higher smacked to her of school.
1989 Just Seventeen 20 Dec. 13/2 He thought he was really fab though, so I decided to pull him down a peg or two.
2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names v. 154 A child of privilege, a knowall Cambridge student, needs to be brought down a peg or two.
b. colloquial. to move (also stir, etc.) a peg: to make a move. Chiefly in negative contexts. Now rare.
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the world > movement > bodily movement > move the body or a member [verb (intransitive)] > make a move
to move (also stir, etc.) a peg?1802
to make a (also the) move1827
?1802 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (1947) VIII. 125 Do my good Fellow! run after that Scoundrel! He has just stole my Hat and between you & I, I am so tipsey I can't stir a Peg.
1875 L. M. Alcott Eight Cousins xxi. 243 ‘I wish Steve would just cut up and see if she's there, since I can't go,’ began Mac, anxiously. ‘Steve won't stir a peg, thank you..,’ answered Dandy.
1897 G. Bartram People of Clopton 189 I wouldn't move a peg.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ii. 29 Tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books.
1989 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 4 Aug. She wouldn't move a peg. John cajoled, petted, sweet-talked, pulled grass as an enticement all to no avail.
4. An occasion, pretext, excuse, or theme (for something). Esp. in a peg to hang (an idea, opinion, etc.) on.news peg: see news n. Compounds 3.
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the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > motive > specious motive or pretext > for a discourse, opinion, etc.
a peg to hang (an idea, opinion, etc.) on1812
1812 J. Nott in T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. (new ed.) 30 The remark of a St. James's-street chairman,..that ‘a crust of bread and cheese was an excellent peg to hang a pot of porter upon’.
1852 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 24–5 July (1954) II. 50 The publishing world seems utterly stagnant—nothing coming out which would do as a peg for an article.
1891 Lancet 3 Oct. 750 The chief use of a fact is as a peg to hang a thought on.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 174/3 Dr Hacking uses this theme as a series of pegs on which to hang his discussions of particular authors' philosophies of language.
1992 Spy (N.Y.) June 16/1 Brokaw wanted to use the incident as a peg for a finished piece about Democratic infighting.
5. Economics. A limit set on an exchange rate, share price, etc., to fix or stabilize the price of a commodity. Cf. peg v. 7.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > money-changing > rate of exchange > limit on rate
peg1933
1933 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Aug. 13/4 Tomorrow the Chicago Board of Trade is scheduled to remove the ‘pegs’ which have limited fluctuations in grains.
1965 McGraw–Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 375 In July, 1947, the [Federal Reserve] System began to remove the peg by ceasing to maintain the treasury bill rate.
2002 BusinessWeek 21 Jan. 43/3 Argentina should have ditched the dollar peg when it became clear it couldn't maintain the discipline needed to make it tenable.
III. Colloquial and regional uses.
6. † b. A branch of a deer's antler; = broach n.1 7. Obsolete.
a. A tooth; (in later use) esp. a child's tooth. Cf. toothy-peg n.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun]
teetha900
munpinsc1475
gams1508
peg1598
tusk1632
masticator1681
headrail1767
ivory1783
tombstone1809
dominos1828
dental1837
toothy-peg1840
fang1841
cruncher1859
chomper1884
teg1886
Hampstead Heath1887
pearly1914
gnasher1919
tat1919
pearly whites1935
chopper1937
1595 F. Sabie Fissher-mans Tale l. 357 Her teeth like pegs of Iuorie, her lips Resembled Cherries of a sanguine hue.]
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. i. 95 Her grinders..shall..waxe as ill As olde Catillaes which wont euery night, Lay vp her hollow pegs till next daylight.
1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote II. xxviii. 103 I want thee to inspect my Jaws; I fear my Pegs of Mastication Have suffer'd total Devastation.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pegs, teeth.
1857 E. Chamberlain Let. 7 July in J. L. Garvin Life Joseph Chamberlain (1932) I. v. 70 I write to congratulate you on Pen's first peg.
1878–81 W. Dickinson Cumberland Gloss. 71 Peg,..A child's tooth.
1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Peg, a child's tooth.
2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 29 Sept. 12–4 The instant teeth whiteners are a big hit. New York's young and beautiful..congregate around the mirrors polishing their pegs.
2021 I. Nimmo White in Lallans 98 19 The hell o a diseases Wis gien me laldy, twa pegs Keepin me waukrife aa nicht.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > knob forming beginning or tip of
broach1575
button1575
croche1575
tenderlings1575
bud1593
peg1611
scrotcher1611
seal1611
velvet tip1638
crocket1870
offer1884
nubbin1978
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chevilleures, the broches of a Deeres head; all the pegs aboue the two lowest.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Het getwy van een Hart, the broches or peggs of a Deers head.
c. colloquial. A wooden leg; (also more generally) a leg. Cf. peg leg n., pin n.1 5a.Scotch peg: see Scotch adj. and n.3 Compounds 2.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > leg
leg1574
wooden leg1582
stump1679
peg leg1769
timber-toe1785
peg1826
tram1836
jury-leg1850
pylon1919
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun]
shanka900
legc1300
grainsa1400
limbc1400
foot?a1425
stumpa1500
pin?1515
pestlea1529
boughc1550
stamp1567
understander1583
pile1584
supporters1601
walker?1611
trestle1612
fetlock1645
pedestal1695
drumstick1770
gam1785
timber1807
tram1808–18
fork1812
prop1817
nethers1822
forkals1828
understanding1828
stick1830
nether person1835
locomotive1836
nether man1846
underpinning1848
bender1849
Scotch peg1857
Scotch1859
under-pinner1859
stem1860
Coryate's compasses1864
peg1891
wheel1927
shaft1935
1826 T. Hood Faithless Nelly Gray in Whims & Oddities 139 The army-surgeons made him limbs: Said he,—‘They're only pegs’.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. iii. 109 It had been left three inches too long, so he had to jerk himself up to the top of his peg at every step.
1891 W. J. Linton Catoninetales 39 A gentle girl was Margaret, Yet sturdy therewithal: No lass was nimbler on her pegs.
1932 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1956) xi. 155 Miss Billy Perry gets Waldo Winchester on his pegs again.
1981 J. May Many-colored Land iii. i. 284 Seating himself by the fire, he swabbed at the peg with a damp rag, revealing carvings of..creatures twining about the artificial limb.
1995 Empire Nov. 104/3 After losing his pegs in a crash, [Douglas] returns to conquer the big blue with a pair of tin ones.
7. Chiefly U.S. An implement with a pin, claw, or hook, used for tearing, husking, harpooning, etc.; the sharp or hooked part of such an implement. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting other marine animals > [noun] > hunting turtles > equipment
peg1720
turtle-net1794
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > removal of husk > husking tool
peg1720
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 289 The Arrow..had a Head, or a Peg, as we call it, of a Bone, and some of sharp Flint Stone; and some few of a Metal.
1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. 39/1 Turtle are most commonly taken at the Bahama-Islands..by striking them with a small Iron Peg of two Inches long, this Peg is put in a Socket at the End of a Staff 12 Feet long..[and] fastened by a String to the Pole.
1827 G. A. McCall Lett. from Frontiers (1868) 178 The Colonel had directed Maximo to bring with him his turtle-seine, his ‘peg’ and all other appliances for hunting the green turtle.
1872 T. De W. Talmage Serm. 162 Corn-husker's peg never ripped out fuller ear.
1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 244 In Florida the turtle-grains have only one prong and one barb (half a barb) when anything but a ‘peg’ is used.
1994 Marine Fisheries Rev. (Nexis) 56 8 Harpoons using detachable spearheads or ‘pegs’ were sometimes used to capture turtles floating on the surface... These ‘pegs’, short steel barbs attached to a line, were designed to pierce the carapace but not to reach the turtle's vital organs and kill it.
8. † b. U.S. An act or effort of pegging on (peg v. 11); a strenuous effort to make one's way. Obsolete.
a. colloquial. A thrusting blow. English regional in later use. Now rare.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking with pushing action > a thrusting blow
sparc1540
job1560
push1563
thrusta1586
poss1611
jub1688
peg1728
jab1825
stab1902
1728 J. Dalton Narr. Street Robberies 8 Chive away, or I'll take him a Peg in the Face.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxvii. 245 Many cross-buttocks did I sustain, and pegs on the stomach without number.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) A peg is also a blow with a straight arm.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Peg, a blow or thump.
1878–81 W. Dickinson Cumberland Gloss. 71 Peg, a thump.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > instance of > an effort > to make one's way
peg1894
1894 Outing Apr. 36/2 From there to the next mark was a dead peg to windward.
c. North American colloquial. A strong or vigorous throw, esp. in baseball. Cf. peg v. 8b.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > fielding > actions
overthrow1856
catch1858
pickup1872
peg1906
shoestring catch1926
1906 Chicago Sunday Tribune 23 Sept. ii. 2/3 Riley losing his own game by a bad peg to first.
1910 Base Ball Mag. Sept. 60/1 It's more fun playing third than short... It's easier, too,..because you don't have to make so many quick pegs.
1947 E. A. McCourt Music at Close ii. iv. 105 Neil faked a throw to second..then threw to first. But his peg was wild.
2002 Seattle Times (Nexis) 9 Sept. d1 Boone..took the ball, spun 180 degrees toward the outfield and made a perfect peg to Carlos Guillen at second.
9. = pegtop n. 1b. Chiefly in peg in the ring n. = pegtop n. 1a. Now chiefly historical.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > peg-top
casting-top1657
peerya1722
pegtop1747
peg1766
boxer1840
pegging-top1899
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > top-spinning game
pegtopa1652
peg in the ring1766
dreidel1920
1766 in H. C. Maxwell-Lyte Hist. Eton Coll. (1911) xvi. 318 Cricket, Fives, Shirking, Walls, Scrambling Walls, Bally Cally, Battledores, Peg-top, Peg in the ring, [etc.].
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. v. 83 In playing at marbles, and peg in the ring.
1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 85 I wish you would change tops with me. I'll give you my two pegs for your boxer.
1885 New Bk. Sports 311 If the full game of peg-in-the-ring be played, [there is] a good deal of excitement and varied interest.
1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games 4 At Eton in 1766 the sports in vogue included Hopscotch, Headimy, Peg in the Ring, [etc.].
10. slang. A shilling (see also quot. 1950). Now rare (chiefly Australian in later use).
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > shilling
s.1387
solidus?a1475
shilling1533
teston1543
twelvepence1563
bord1567
twelvepenny piece1594
sh.1607
hog1673
twelver1699
she-lion1744
grunter1785
twalpenny worth1786
bob1789
pega1790
tower shilling1800
little shilling1826
deaner1839
rogue and villain1857
stag1857
hole1934
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > florin or two shillings
florin1849
godless florin1849
graceless florin1862
Scotchman1879
lamb-florin1885
swy1924
peg1950
a1790 H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash Langs. (1795) Peg, or peg stick, a shilling.
c1825 Mod. Flash Dict. Peg, Peg-stick, a shilling.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 52/1 Waist Togs, cut long, with moleskin back and sleeves, 10 peg. Blue Cloth ditto.., 14 peg.
1887 N.Z. Mail 15 July 9 A shilling [is] ‘a peg’, or ‘a denah’, or ‘a herring’.
1904 L. M. P. Archer Bush Honeymoon 213 I'm old an' lonely an' poor—ten peg per week, an' lucky to get it.
1950 Austral. Police Jrnl. Apr. 117 Peg, 2s.
11. † b. English regional. A small piece of dough (see quot.). Obsolete.
a. A segment of a citrus fruit (cf. pig n.1 13b). Also: a clove of garlic. Now Caribbean.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun] > parts of fruit
flesh1574
acetary1672
grain1674
peg1817
sarcocarp1819
pig1859
albedo1923
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > citrus fruit > segment of
peg1817
1817 L. Hunt Day by Fire in Round Table II. 125 Up walks the aforesaid heaven or mischievous young fellow..and..claps into her mouth a peg of orange or a long slice of citron.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 960/2 [West Indies] Peg... One of the cells or natural divisions into which an orange may be separated after removing the skin.
1956 J. Hearne Stranger at Gate i. 9 He moved his hand and closed it on..the..tangerine..stripping the soft skin from the fruit and cramming the pegs into his mouth.
1971 Caribbean Q. 17 ii. 14 Different name, same referent..feg/fig/peg/plug/sprig (of orange).
1993 Vincentian 23 Dec. 13/3 1 lb English potatoes..1 lb carrots..1 peg garlic..1 chopped onion.
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1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Pegs, small pieces of dough rolled up, and crammed down the throats of young ducks and geese.
12. colloquial (originally Anglo-Indian). Originally: a drink of brandy and soda water. Later more generally: a (usually alcoholic) drink, esp. of spirits; a measure of spirits.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy and soda
peg1860
brandy and soda1871
B. and S.a1878
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > specific quantity of
dramc1590
leaguer1712
finger1820
glassful1841
four1869
nip1869
half1888
two1894
snifter1910
treble1968
balloon1973
triple1981
peg2003
1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 188 Peg, brandy and soda water.
1883 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs 7 Trial..who could absorb the most ‘pegs’—those vile concoctions of spirits, ice, and sodawater.
1896 A. Forbes Camps, Quarters, & Casual Places 263 [She] brewed him a mild peg with her own fair hands.
1917 H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1936) viii. 153 Over pegs of ginger ale, found in an ice-chest, we sat for a time and chatted.
1939 X. Herbert Capricornia (new ed.) iii. 26 He..got out a bottle that was roughly labelled Henn's Ambrosia, and drank a peg.
2003 Financial Express (India) (Nexis) 27 Sept. A 30ml peg of Royal Challenge whisky comes with a price tag of Rs 100.
13. Angling. A place, usually marked by a numbered peg, allotted to a competitor from which to fish; (hence) the stretch of water, ground, etc., allotted to a person for a match.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [noun] > place allotted for competition
peg1897
1897 Fishing Gaz. 18 Sept. 221/2 The members made their way to their pegs, which reached from Pershore Bridge down the river to Burlingham.
1951 F. H. Hornsey Match-Fishing with Champions 14 The cold was almost unendurable, yet down at the water's edge every man was at his peg.
1976 Liverpool Echo 23 Nov. 17/8 It is the best match catch of dace from the lower reaches for several seasons and came from a peg opposite the yacht park.
1995 Carpworld July 100/2 The draw is exactly the same as the match draw so you have to fish the peg you pull until 8.00 a.m., when you can fish any vacant area.
Compounds
C1.
peg hole n.
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1710 H. Howard England's Newest Way in all Sorts Cookery, Pastry, & all Pickles (ed. 3) 142 You must watch by drawing every Day a little, at a Peg-hole in your Vessel.
1929 N. Lloyd Building Craftsmanship x. 93/1 Sizes of..slates, measuring from centre of peg hole to tail, in inches, are Long bachelors 11 Short bachelors 10½.
2001 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 6 Jan. 4 Check..that all pegs and peg holes in the top coincide with the frame underneath.
peg maker n.
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1723 London Gaz. No. 6193/3 Thomas Atkines,..Pegmaker.
1887 Times 23 Apr. 12/4 Charles Smith, 63, a peg maker, was found guilty of the wilful murder of his wife, Lucy Smith.
1999 Derby Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 31 Aug. From peg makers and potters to blacksmiths and woodcarvers, it boasted five marquees of hand-crafted goods.
C2. † peg float n. Shoemaking Obsolete = peg cutter n.† peg-roots n. Obsolete a hellebore, probably Helleborus niger, used in settering cattle (cf. setterwort n.).† peg-striker n. Obsolete rare a person who catches turtles with a peg (sense 7).† peg strip n. Shoemaking Obsolete a strip or ribbon of wood from which pegs for shoes are cut using a pegging machine.† peg-wattled adj. Obsolete (of a bird) having a wattle shaped like a peg (see quot.).
peg bag n. a bag used as a container for clothes pegs.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothesline > peg to fasten clothes on > container for
peg basket1914
peg bag1951
1951 J. Fleming Man who looked Back xl. 145 She gathered up her arty peg-bag.
1972 P. Flower Cobweb iii. 92 Already a faithful clientele. What d'you think about tea cosies and table-mats, peg bags, teapot stands and so on?
1997 A. Smith Like (2001) 323 He has the peg bag hanging from a belt loop in his trousers, and pegs pinned on the lapel of his work jacket.
peg basket n. a basket or similar container for clothes pegs.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothesline > peg to fasten clothes on > container for
peg basket1914
peg bag1951
1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd i. i. 12 Jack, can you go and take the stockings in for me?.. Minnie, you take the peg-basket.
1991 Ideal Home (BNC) 96 Peg basket, £3.55, from a selection.
pegboard n. a board into which pegs are inserted; spec. (a) a board with holes and pegs used in certain games; (b) a board having regularly spaced holes to hold pegs on which objects can be hung.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting framework > other specific types
box standard1786
A-frame1827
pegboard1846
Warren1852
pegboarding1960
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > [noun] > board
playing boarda1398
tablea1398
playing table1468
board1474
game board1826
pegboard1846
gaming board1932
1846 Brit. Patent 11,100 (1856) 14 The mechanical mounting... The peg board (Figure 4) serves in this arrangement the office of the divided circle..,and the wire hooks..represent the marches or treddles.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 246 We can merely mention bean-bags, peg-boards, size and form boards, as some of the apparatus found useful for the purpose [of amusing and instructing the weak-minded].
1975 P. G. Winslow Death of Angel iv. 96 The shed was deep... Tools hung from a pegboard in the back.
1996 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 30 July 1 c The accompanying book shows variations of the game, keeping Peg Solitaire a fresh challenge. The one drawback is that the pegboard is shallow and the pegs pop easily out of it.
pegboarding n. boarding with regularly spaced holes to hold pegs on which objects can be hung.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting framework > other specific types
box standard1786
A-frame1827
pegboard1846
Warren1852
pegboarding1960
1960 Woman's Realm 2 Apr. 10/3 Sheets of pegboarding..make a..useful space for hanging utensils.
1993 Antique Dealer Aug. 12 (advt.) The biggest weekly Fair in the North... Refreshments, Comfortable Halls, carpeted and heated Pegboarding (wall stalls).
peg-climbing n. Mountaineering climbing using pegs or pitons; cf. sense 2h.
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1949 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 19 June 6/2 He can..climb peg climbers to get in practice for a peg climbing tournament to be held later this summer.
1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon viii. 120 We fully expected our route to be high-standard peg-climbing the whole way.
peg cutter n. Shoemaking (now rare) a float for cutting off the protruding ends of pegs from boots and shoes.
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1832 Ohio Repository 13 Apr. 7/3 Shoethread; Peg Cutters.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1648/1 Peg-cutter, an instrument or machine for removing the ends of pegs from the insides of boots and shoes. A float.
1888 Herald & Torch Light (Hagerstown, Maryland) 6 Sept. The following merchandise and store fixtures: Three bags of fine salt, 15 pairs of men's and youths' boots, patent nail puller, store lamps, dozen shoe boxes, peg cutter, [etc.].
peg doll n. a doll made from a clothes peg or similar wooden object.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > wooden doll
Dutch doll1797
Russian doll1910
matryoshka1948
peg doll1950
kokeshi1959
1950 Dryad Catal. 96 Peg doll. Height 11″—Each 4/6.
1972 Times 30 June 18/2 Nanny..is one of a series of pretty peg dolls all dressed in the fashions of 1870 servants... They are..made from genuine dolly pegs, hand painted and dressed by Somerset craftsmen.
1998 S. Waters Tipping Velvet iii. 70 It's perfect, Mrs Dendy. Miss Astley and I will be as cosy here as two peg-dolls in a doll's house.
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1860 G. W. Hawes Ohio State Gazetteer for 1860–61 591/1 Langley F. L., Patentee of patent peg float.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1648/1 Peg-float, an implement for rasping pegs from boots and shoes.
1886 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 5 Jan. 2/5 Sharpening: Surgical Instruments, Shears,..Peg Floats & Cutters, [etc.].
peg house n. slang (a) a public house, a tavern (now rare); (b) U.S. a brothel or meeting place for male homosexuals.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house
houseOE
tavern1297
tavern-housea1400
sunc1400
tap-house1500
tippling-housea1549
innsc1550
bousing-inn1575
ivy-bush1576
osteria1580
ordinary1590
caback1591
taberna1593
bousing-house1594
pothouse1598
red lattice1604
cupping-house1615
public house1617
busha1625
Wirtshaus1650
bibbery1653
cabaret1656
gaming ordinary1667
public1685
shop1695
bibbing-housea1704
dram-shop1725
gill house1728
rum shop1738
buvette1753
dram-house1753
grog-shop1790
wine-vault1791
pub1800
pulperia1818
pulqueria1822
potation-shop1823
rum hole1825
Wirtschaft1834
drunkery1836
pot shop1837
drinkery1840
rum mill1844
khazi1846
beer-shop1848
boozer1895
rub-a-dub1898
Weinstube1899
rubbity-dub1905
peg house1922
rub-a-dub-dub1932
rubbity1941
Stube1946
superpub1964
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel > for homosexuals
spintry1649
peg house1922
1922 C. Aiken Jig of Forslin 40 And once I murdered, by the waterfront: A drunken sailor, in a peg-house brawl.
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 211 Peg house, a place where, if the hobo wishes, he may meet Angelina.
1972 R. A. Wilson Playboy's Bk. Forbidden Words 222 A ‘peg-boy’ is a young male who prostitutes himself to homosexuals; ‘peg-house’, a homosexual brothel. There is an unsubstantiated story that boys in East Indian peg-houses were required to sit on pegs between customers, giving them permanently dilated anuses.
1989 S. Sucharitkul Moon Dance iv. ii. 439 She gathered..that it had something to do with his frequenting San Francisco's notorious ‘peg houses’, institutions named for the oriental custom of having their merchandise seated upon greased pegs.
peg ladder n. a ladder, usually fixed, having a single support or shaft with rungs fixed through it or projecting to one side.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > [noun] > other ladders
rope ladder1658
tackling-ladder1680
Indian ladder1715
peg ladder1854
hook-ladder1858
cat-ladder1883
1854 Harper's Mag. Nov. 849/2 Uncle G— disappeared down the peg-ladder at the corner.
1978 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 20 May 6/2 Numerous paintings in the caves, as well as wooden peg ladders up the rock faces to reach the wild hives, were indications of the former presence of Bushmen.
2000 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 21 May 3 b A tunnel that led to an outbuilding and a peg ladder inside a secret crawl space upstairs.
peg-man n. †(a) a soldier or other person whose job is to put up tents (obsolete); (b) Shoemaking a workman who makes pegged boots or shoes (now historical).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > shaping > one who
peg-man1853
laster1857
1853 Times 2 June 7/2 Before arriving in camp the men will be told off for their several functions as ‘pole men’, ‘peg men’, and ‘unpackers of tents’, two men being allotted for each of these duties.
1897 S. Webb & B. Webb Industr. Democracy I. 418 ‘Lasters’..(in hand-sewn work these are known as ‘makers’, in ‘pegged work’..they are called ‘pegmen’ or ‘rivetters’).
peg-pole n. rare an upright pole pierced with holes, ascended by a gymnast who inserts two pegs (one held in each hand) alternately into the holes.
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1863 T. W. Higginson Out-door Papers 168 When you have come to the really difficult feats of the gymnasium,—when you have conquered the ‘barber's curl’ and the ‘peg-pole’.
1904 N.E.D. at Peg Peg-pole.
peg-pot n. rare = peg tankard n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > vessel with measuring pegs
peg tankard1796
peg-pot1903
1903 Athenæum 24 Jan. 122/1 In 1873 a peg-pot similarly engraved..was offered to the city, but declined.
peg-rent n. now rare cloakroom charges.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for use of other facilities
stream-toll1327
cranage1390
ward-fee1789
streetage1857
slidage1884
peg-rent1911
1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 115/1 The man who likes to eat a meal without worry lest somebody should exchange hats with him..must pay peg-rent.
peg rhizoid n. (in certain liverworts of the order Marchantiales) a rhizoid distinguished by peg-like processes on the inner surface.
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the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > liverwort > part of
peg rhizoid1911
1911 J. M. Coulter et al. Textbk. Bot. II. i. 516 In the Marchantiaceae, rhizoids are of two kinds, plane rhizoids..and peg rhizoids, in which the cell wall grows out internally into peg-like or antler-like projections.
1969 F. E. Round Introd. Lower Plants viii. 102 (caption) Section through a pore region of Conocephalum, note photosynthetic filaments, peg and smooth rhizoids and amphigastrium.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > hellebore
cloffinga1450
peg-roots1726
hellebore1792
1726 S. Shaw Grammatical Dict. 44 Helleborastrum.., Bears-foot. N. B. Country People call it Peg-roots.
1737 S. Dale Pharmacologia (ed. 3) 177/1 Dein fibros radicum hujus per vulnus transadigunt, unde Peg-Roots dicuntur.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting other marine animals > [noun] > hunting turtles > turtle hunter
turtler1697
turtle-catcher1726
peg-striker1846
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Peg-striker, one who catches turtles by striking them with an iron peg having a string attached to it. Holbrook.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1650/1 Peg-strip,..invented by Sturtevant, 1858.
1875 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 11 Mar. 5/6 Pegs or sole fastenings... Machine for making compressed peg strips.
peg tankard n. now historical a tankard with pegs inserted at regular intervals to mark the quantity each person is to drink (see sense 2b).
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > vessel with measuring pegs
peg tankard1796
peg-pot1903
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 183 Peg-Tankards, of which I have seen a few still remaining in Derbyshire,..hold two quarts, so that there is a gill of ale, i.e. half a pint Winchester measure, between each pin.
1884 Leisure Hour May 299/2 The peg-tankard..had pegs in it, dividing the height into eight half-pints.
1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 468/2 A Scandinavian peg tankard, 18th C.
peg tooth n. a tooth shaped like a peg, a canine tooth (cf. sense 6a).
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > canine
seizera1425
eyetooth1530
dog-tooth1552
griper1600
canine tooth1607
holder1672
twang1677
peg tooth1681
wick1726
fanger1763
canine1835
cuspid1878
pin tooth1886
stomach-tooth1890
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. 43 The Teeth are about threescore, thirty in each Jaw;..Peg-Teeth, not much unlike the Tusks of a Mastiff.
1989 Ambit 118 81 Neck shield of Triceratops Like a cannon's armoured flange, Covers a neck only crunchable By Tyrannosaurs' peg teeth.
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1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 82 The wattle..ought to be broad across the beak; short from the head towards the apex, or point of the bill, and tilting forwards from the head; for if otherwise, it is said to be peg-wattled, which is very much disesteemed.
pegwood n. (a) Shoemaking wood for making pegs for shoes (now historical); (b) dogwood in thin strips having one end sharpened to a point, used by jewellers for cleaning the pivot-holes of watches.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > other cleaning methods, devices, or substances > [noun] > devices
comb-brush1611
pickler1758
pegwood1822
bottle washer1826
knife-board1829
riper1880
file-card1884
iron cloth1889
bottle-cleaner1896
soot-blower1930
1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 12 Oct. 3/5 (advt.) On Monday morning, at 10 o'clock..will be sold, a number of articles, among which are, Fixtures of Cases, suitable for a Boot or Shoemaker—Boot Trees—a Stock of Lasts—Peg wood, &c.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 184 A watch maker would be quite at a loss without a stock of peg wood.
1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 128 Pegwood. Stripped twig of boxwood sharpened at the end like a pencil and used to clean out the pivot holes of clocks and watches.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
Pegn.2
/pɛɡ/, U.S. /pɛɡ/ Astronomy.
The constellation Pegasus. Chiefly as postmodifier, designating a star of this constellation.
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1922 Trans. Internat. Astron. Union 1 158 The following resolutions were adopted [at the first General Assembly of the IAU]: (1) The exclusive use of the Latin names of the constellations. (2) The adoption of the three-letter abbreviations proposed by Profs. Hertzsprung and Russell for the representation of the 88 principal constellations... Peg Pegasus.
1985 Astron. & Astrophysics 145 237/1 Enhancements at the Ca ii K line may also exist in the giant ε Peg and in α Hya.
1995 Nature 23 Nov. 332/1 51 Peg is just visible to the naked eye and..closely resembles the Sun.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pegv.
/pɛɡ/, U.S. /pɛɡ/ I. Senses relating to pegs (literally or figuratively).† 1. transitive (reflexive). To gorge, stuff oneself. Obsolete. rare.† 4. transitive. To drive (an idea, doctrine, etc.) in by repetition, like a peg with repeated blows. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (transitive)] > feed (oneself) to excess
over-quatc1275
glutc1315
fill1340
stuffa1400
aglutc1400
agroten1440
grotenc1440
ingrotenc1440
sorporrc1440
replenisha1450
pegc1450
quatc1450
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cloy1530
saturate1538
enfarce1543
mast?1550
engluta1568
gull1582
ingurgitate1583
stall1583
forage1593
paunch1597
upbray1598
upbraid1599
surfeitc1600
surcharge1603
gormandize1604
overfeed1609
farcinate1634
repletiate1638
stodge1854
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4278 (MED) Surfet vs wlattis, To pegge vs as a peny hoge þat praysis noȝt oure laȝes.
2. To insert or drive a peg or pegs into; spec.† a. transitive. To insert a peg into the nose of (a pig), to prevent rooting; (English regional) to setter (a cow). Obsolete.† b. transitive. To plug up (a thing); to spike (a cannon). Cf. spike v.1 2. Obsolete.† c. transitive. To broach (a cask, etc.). Also: to provide (a cask) with a vent and peg. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > ring nose
ring1446
peg1543
nuzzle1850
1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 17 §15 Unlesse the same swyne be sufficiently ringed or pegged.
1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 100 He intended to pegge or ring an hog.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) The custom of ‘pegging’ calves or yearlings ‘for the blackleg’..is now rapidly dying out.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > putting weapons or equipment out of action > put weapons or equipment out of action [verb (transitive)] > silence a gun > by spiking
clowa1522
peg1551
to nail up1562
cloy1577
nail1598
spick1623
spike1644
wedge1680
spike1687
1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 237 And I truste I haue eyther broken youre peeces, or pegged theym, that you shall bee able to shoote no more.
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iv. 60 b Thei..broke one peece of Ordnaunce, and pegged or poysoned an other.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 117 Take a live Lobster, boil it in Salt and Water, peg it that no Water gets in.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > open to use or a source > broach (a cask, etc.)
to set abroach1390
attame1393
abroachc1400
tame?a1412
broachc1440
to set a (on) broachc1440
strikea1616
tap1694
peg1721
spile1832
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 34 (1754) 181 He peg'd several buts, and gave me a glass of each to taste.
1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 69 There should be first an Examination made by pegging the Vessel to prove, if such Drink is fine, the Hop sufficiently rotted, and it be mellow and well-tasted.
1774 J. Woodforde Diary 31 Mar. in Woodforde at Oxf. (1969) 210 I pegged both Hgshds in the aft: & it was both very good.
d. transitive. Shoemaking. To fasten the sole to the upper of (a boot or shoe) with pegs (peg n.1 2c). Also occasionally intransitive. Now historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > make footwear [verb (transitive)] > furnish with heel or sole > fasten on with wooden pegs
peg1850
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 295 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI Improvement in Machines for Pegging Boots and Shoes.
1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene i. xiii. 362 Sometimes boots are not sewn, but pegged.
1900 T. Dreiser Sister Carrie xv. 160 A shoemaker pegging at his last.
1999 Public Relations Q. (Nexis) 22 Dec. 4 The ad of shoe manufacturer W. L. Douglas..shows him pegging shoes at the age of seven.
e. transitive. To insert small wooden pegs into (a stalk of tobacco). Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with other materials > work with other materials [verb (transitive)] > processes in working with tobacco
stem1724
peg1850
pole-cure1899
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 321 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI ‘Pegging’ tobacco..is done by driving little pegs, about six inches long and half an inch or less square, into the stalk about four inches from the big end of the stalk.
1968 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1966 xlv. 19 It's hard work to peg tobacco.
f. transitive. Cricket. To drive pegs into (the face of a bat) (see quot. 1934). Now rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [verb (transitive)] > drive pegs into bat
peg1853
1853 F. Gale Public School Matches 17 The captain is going in. An old bat, well pegged but very clean, looks like business.
1906 A. E. Knight Compl. Cricketer ii. 48 Pegging down the bat is simple, but destructive and ineffective.
1934 W. J. Lewis Lang. Cricket 186 To peg a bat, to drive a few small pegs into the face of a bat as a remedial measure when the grain of the wood has risen with use.
3. † b. transitive. figurative. To restrict, constrain, or confine (a person); to tie down. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To fix or secure with a peg; to fasten with or as with a peg or pegs. Also with down.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with pins or pegs
biprenec1275
pinc1390
pin1449
key1577
peg1598
cotter1649
writhe1683
nog1711
cotterel1747
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]
bindc1200
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
corset1935
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action
bind971
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
to box up1659
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
hog-tie1924
corset1935
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To peg or pin in.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 296 I will rend an Oake And peg-thee in his knotty entrailes. View more context for this quotation
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 13 Peg it [sc. a branch] down with a hook or two.
1718 Entertainer No. 19. 127 After he has mounted his Box, and methodically pegg'd his Cloak.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. x. 148 They slipped their Cats, one by one, in at the Window; and again, having pegged the Pane into its Place, they withdrew.
1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 417 The plants..must be trained close to the wall, or pegged to the bank as they grow.
1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab v. 86 They..left him a whole day under a broiling sun pegged to the ground.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xi. 193 They were pegging down carnations, and putting in small plants for the summer.
1957 ‘Miss Read’ Village Diary 205 Joseph Coggs was delighted to see his mother pegging washing on her line, far below.
1993 Economist 7 Aug. 44/2 Players can choose games pegged to the latest films, such as ‘Jurassic Park’.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)]
beloukOE
loukOE
sparc1175
pena1200
bepen?c1225
pind?c1225
prison?c1225
spearc1300
stopc1315
restraina1325
aclosec1350
forbara1375
reclosea1382
ward1390
enclose1393
locka1400
reclusea1400
pinc1400
sparc1430
hamperc1440
umbecastc1440
murea1450
penda1450
mew?c1450
to shut inc1460
encharter1484
to shut up1490
bara1500
hedge1549
hema1552
impound1562
strain1566
chamber1568
to lock up1568
coop1570
incarcerate1575
cage1577
mew1581
kennel1582
coop1583
encagea1586
pound1589
imprisonc1595
encloister1596
button1598
immure1598
seclude1598
uplock1600
stow1602
confine1603
jail1604
hearse1608
bail1609
hasp1620
cub1621
secure1621
incarcera1653
fasten1658
to keep up1673
nun1753
mope1765
quarantine1804
peg1824
penfold1851
encoop1867
oubliette1884
jigger1887
corral1890
maroon1904
to bang up1950
to lock down1971
1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. i. 15 [Marvell] I will not be pegged down to any plot.
1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 17 Mar. (1946) 38 Here are two pleasant and pretty women pegged up the whole day ‘In the worst inn's worst room’.
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Politics vi. 219 Before he [sc. man] is pegged down by ancient usage.
c. transitive. colloquial (chiefly North American). To categorize, to identify as a certain type; to form a fixed opinion of. Frequently in to have (a person) pegged.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > hold an opinion, opine [verb (intransitive)] > be committed to
assistc1600
engagea1676
to have (a person) pegged1920
1920 Collier's 31 July 29/2 I had him pegged from the go in for what he is—one of them tea-room boys which will stop at nothin' but work!
1940 J. O'Hara Pal Joey 175 I tho't I could peg a joint like that from 2 mi. away.
1968 H. Waugh Con Game ix. 91 I always knew she was a slut. An ignorant, stupid child. I pegged her from the start.
1972 D. Lees Zodiac 40 I had her pegged as a bit of a nut.
1991 M. Dorris & L. Erdrich Crown of Columbus xvii. 285 I had pegged him as part of my father's generation, from a time in which men knew next to nothing about the plumbing of their children.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > drive or strike in > as a stake, pile, peg, or wedge
pile1523
coin1580
stake1612
pega1614
a1614 D. Dyke Schoole of Afflict. in Two Treat. (1618) ii. 340 No doctrine can enter, vnless it be pegged, and hammered, and knocked into vs by the fists of this sowre and crabbed schoolemaster [affliction].
1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing xxix. 354 Vnlesse wee..doe so pegge and hammer them [sc. holy thoughts] in.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Pet. iii. 1) So must Ministers with one Sermon peg in another.
5. transitive. Cribbage. To mark (one's score) with pegs on a cribbage board, esp. during play; to mark the score of (a person). Also occasionally intransitive.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [verb (transitive)] > mark score
peg1868
1823 [implied in: C. Lamb Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist in Elia 80 The pegging [at cribbage] teased her. (at pegging n. 1a)].
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 229 Dear Mossy could neither feel to deal and shuffle, nor see to peg.
1868 G. F. Pardon Card Player 22 You must be careful how you peg your opponent.
?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 77 Suppose your opponent leads off with a nine, you play a six and cry ‘fifteen’, and peg two holes.
1953 H. Phillips Pan Bk. Card Games (1960) 141 At this stage the scoring begins, the non-dealer pegging three points, which are known as ‘three for the last’.
1981 G. Brandreth Everyman's Indoor Games 98 If the start is a jack the dealer pegs two points—‘2 for his heels’.
2003 Sacramento Bee (Nexis) 12 Oct. n1 (caption) A cribbage player pegs a point on the game board.
6.
a. transitive. To mark with pegs; esp. to mark the boundaries of (a piece of ground, a claim for mining, etc.) with pegs placed at the corners. Also with off. Cf. to peg out 2 at Phrasal verbs.
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1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 239/1 Ranging its [sc. a line's] further progress with the work already pegged in.
1867 T. Cooper Digger's Diary at Thames (1978) 10 Then the word is given to the intruders by their leader, to peg off the claim..and the claim is thus unjustly, though..legally seized.
1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 102 He pegged the ground, and applied for a lease.
1974 D. Stuart Prince of my Country iii. 19 A man's ground's only his own so long as he's working it unless he pegs it and goes in and registers it with the Warden.
b. transitive. Angling. To mark out (a stretch of river bank) with pegs indicating positions from which competitors are to fish; to allot a position to (an angler) in this way. Frequently with out. Cf. to peg out 2 at Phrasal verbs, peg n.1 4.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)] > to mark out for competition
to peg out1927
peg1947
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)] > to mark out for competition > to allot a position for competition
to peg out1902
peg1947
1947 ‘Cheshire Roamer’ Beginner's Guide Match Fishing iv. 15 The man who pegs the bank should be an angler of some experience.
1986 Sea Angling Handbk. Summer 6/3 Dave was pegged at fancied Holland Road and dinked out small flounders and rockling.
1987 Match Fishing Feb. 34/3 In both matches we've been pegged next to the winning team.
7. transitive. colloquial (originally Stock Market). To prevent the price of (stock, etc.) from falling or rising by buying or selling freely at a given price. More generally: to fix (a price, wage, exchange rate, etc.) at a certain level or in line with a certain standard; to set a numerical or quantitative limit on (something). Also in extended use.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > influence the market > peg prices
peg1882
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > steadiness in price > make steady [verb (transitive)] > at certain level
peg1882
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Apr. Arbitrarily raising prices against them—‘pegging prices up’, it is called.
1891 N.Y. Herald 17 Apr. (Farmer section) 6/2 Portuguese have been well pegged, but other ‘Internationals’ have been featureless.
1933 Sun (Baltimore) 13 July 10/2 The British went off gold after a strenuous effort to maintain gold parity in 1931 and it can hardly be proved that England's trade balance has improved sufficiently to permit pegging the pound at any such figure.
1959 Punch 29 Aug. 30/2 I have already encouraged my teenagers to peg their consumption of sweets, soft drinks, records, cosmetics and cycle accessories in the hope of bringing manufacturers to heel.
1976 Milton Keynes Express 23 July 39/3 Towcestrians threw five bowlers into the attack in the hope of pegging the run rate.
1977 Evening Post (Nottingham) 27 Jan. 5/4 Planners hope to peg the cost of the tour at £60 or less per tourist.
2001 Day (New London, Connecticut) 28 Dec. a3/5 A law that pegs the peso at one-to-one parity with the dollar.
II. Other uses.† 9. † 12. intransitive. colloquial. To consume pegs of an alcoholic drink, to tipple. Obsolete.
8. colloquial.
a. intransitive. To throw missiles at; to aim for. Also transitive: to throw (a missile).
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something thrown > strike at with something thrown
peg1699
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Peg at Cocks, to throw at them at Shrovetide.
1830 Boston Gaz. 26 Oct. 4 Roe continued ‘pegging’ at Heardson.
1875 F. I. Scudamore Day Dreams 155 He ‘pegs’ for larks but is not disdainful of sparrows.
1895 ‘M. E. Francis’ Daughter of Soil iii. 34 She pegged a stone at me.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 198 He takes up a wad of cabbage on the spoon and pegs it across the room.
1962 H. Green Time to pass Over iii. 43 One of her little brothers had been pegging at him from the other direction.
1978 S. King Stand xxvi. 189 Someone had pegged a half-full can of beer at him from a passing car and the beer can had struck him on the forehead.
b. transitive. U.S. Baseball. To throw (the ball) hard and low; to stop or put out (a runner) with such a throw. Also intransitive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > throw ball hard and low
peg1862
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > put out > a runner
peg1862
nip1868
to throw out1876
nail1888
to pick off1888
tag1907
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > be put out
to strike out1853
pop1885
peg1939
1862 N.Y. Sunday Mercury 13 July 6/1 Peter then pegged the ball in good old style, but this time raised it too high.
1908 Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide 87 The catcher could not peg the Chicago base-runners.
1939 Sat. Evening Post 7 Oct. 29/1 Many an enemy outfit with a fast and smart defense, will have you eating passes before quitting time if you can't do anything but peg to second base.
2003 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 15 July c9 He..had missed winning the throw-to-second contest, where Little Leaguers peg the ball from home plate toward a trash can set at second base.
a. transitive. To strike or pierce with a sharp or hooked implement; spec. to strike with the peg of a pegtop. Also: to harpoon. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > catch fish with spear
poach1602
dart1624
peg1735
spear1755
harpoon1774
gig1816
spritsail-yard1833
gaff1844
grain1892
spear-fish1962
society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [verb (transitive)] > strike with the pike of a peg-top
peg1735
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Peg,..to strike or hit any thing with the Iron Point that is fastened or put into Childrens Toys, called Castle Tops.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 51 Attempting to peg it [sc. a top] down into the ring.
1815 Misc. in Ann. Reg. 547/2 Turtle abound amongst the islands..we could neither peg any from the boat, nor yet catch them on shore.
1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder vi. 93 They fought because Charlie Woods pegged Arthur Tangye's top with his new top.
b. intransitive. To aim or strike at with a pegtop, or other sharp implement. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > strike at
swipc1380
lasha1400
foundc1420
drivec1540
dent1580
tilt1589
snap1631
spar1755
peg1828
slap1842
1828 Boy's Own Bk. 12 The moment it [sc. a peg-top] rolls out, he may take it up, and peg at those which still remain inside.
1859 Amer. Freemason May 359/2 One player begins by throwing his top..and while it is there spinning the other players are at liberty to peg at it as quickly as they can.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. vi. 48 Silas pegged at him with his wooden leg.
1880 S. Baring-Gould Mehalah I. xi. 218 She turned sharply round, [and] pegged at him with the umbrella.
c. transitive. colloquial. to peg it: to pitch into a person, esp. with the fists. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make attack [verb (intransitive)]
onreseeOE
onslayc1275
entera1425
to be upon (also on) a person's jack1588
endeavour?1589
to fall aboard1591
to let fly1611
strikea1616
to lift (up) the hand(s, (occasionally one's arm)1655
to fall on board (of)1658
tilt1708
to walk into ——1794
to run in1815
to peg it1834
to sail in1856
to wade in1863
to light in1868
to roll into ——1888
to make for ——1893
1834 M. M. G. Dowling Othello Travestie ii. v You peg it into him, and pray don't spare him.
1889 Licensed Vict. Gaz. 18 Jan. (Farmer) Peg it into him, snacks.
10. † b. transitive. slang. To drive (a vehicle). Obsolete. rare.
a. intransitive and (in later use) transitive with it. colloquial. To move vigorously or hastily. Also with away, off, up.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > energetically
stretchc1275
peg1748
to strike out1847
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxvii. 247 The captain, by his sole word and power and command, had driven sickness a pegging to the tevil, and there was no more malady on poard.
1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To Peg off, or away, to go off quickly.
1848 Ladies' Repository Oct. 316/2 Peg up and Morrice, get up and come, or go.
1859 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 305/2 Fleeing..with a ‘rapidité sans égal’, pegging away with a unanimity that was really delightful.
1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am iii Geoffrey Blake pegged along the hard road of industrious poverty till he came to the Temple of Fortune.
1884 J. S. Le Fanu in Temple Bar Aug. 484 Away with me out of the hall-door..and down the street I pegged like a madman.
1895 A. Patterson Man & Nature on Broads 141 Law! how I pegged it.
1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 209/2 To peg away, to walk fast, hurry.
1994 Ticket Aug. 55 (heading) Sairah Aiwan, your club host, once again pegs it round the country with her camera.
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1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress 80 I first was hir'd to peg a Hack. Note, To drive a hackney coach.
c1825 Mod. Flash Dict. Peg a hack, to drive a hackney-coach.
11. intransitive. colloquial. To toil laboriously over a long period; to work or go at persistently. Frequently with away; also with along, on.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > continue doing or keep going in a course of action [verb (intransitive)] > with endurance or persistence
to stand up1656
peg1805
to bang away1820
plug1867
plough1891
pitch1929
the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist [verb (intransitive)] > slowly and laboriously
worry1702
to worry one's way1727
peg1805
plug1867
worry1871
bore1875
pedgill1913
1805 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (ed. 2) 132 I' th meanteyme th fiddlers changt an playt As hard as they cud peg.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. xi. 234 Slices of roast meat, at which we began pegging with all possible pertinacity.
1818 J. Keats Let. 24 Jan. (1958) I. 216 The musicians began pegging & fagging away at an overture.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxix. 309 The particular friends resumed their attack upon the breakfast... ‘Peg away, Bob,’ said Mr. Allen to his companion, encouragingly.
1867 J. R. Green Let. 23 Jan. (1901) 172 It is no good pegging away at one little point.
1882 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 158 I still lack about 30,000 words... I shall peg along, day by day.
1892 Spectator 16 July 83/2 Mr. Field pegged on 'till the annual value of the paper..had become £160.
1956 People 13 May 1/6 I have just kept pegging away year after year.
1978 L. Deighton SS-GB xiv. 115 How I envied you doing Greats, while I pegged away at my Civil Law.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor
to wet (one's) whistle, weasand, mouth, beak, beardc1386
bibc1400
to kiss the cupa1420
drawa1500
refresh1644
mug1653
bub1654
jug1681
whiffle1693
dram1740
wet1783
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
stimulate1800
lush1811
taste1823
liquor1839
oil1841
paint1853
irrigate1856
nip1858
smile1858
peg1874
gargle1889
shicker1906
stop1924
bevvy1934
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)]
to drink deepa1300
bousec1300
bibc1400
to drink drunk1474
quaff1520
to set cock on the hoopa1535
boll1535
quass1549
tipple1560
swillc1563
carouse1567
guzzle1579
fuddle1588
overdrink1603
to drink the three outs1622
to bouse it1623
sota1639
drifflec1645
to drink like a fisha1653
tope1668
soak1687
to play at swig1688
to soak one's clay (or face)1704
impote1721
rosin1730
dram1740
booze1768
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
swattle1785
lush1811
to lift up the little finger1812
to lift one's (or the) elbow1823
to crook one's elbow or little finger1825
jollify1830
to bowse up the jib1836
swizzle1847
peg1874
to hit the booze, bottle, jug, pot1889
to tank up1902
sozzle1937
to belt the bottle1941
indulge1953
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 250 Peg, to drink frequently.
1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 601/1 Samuel has an Indian liver. He pegs.
13. transitive. Hunting. Of a gun dog: to seize (a game bird) on the ground rather than flushing it.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (transitive)] > point
set1621
pointc1692
stand1863
peg1892
1892 Field 7 May 695/1 Then Satin found birds, and directly after pegged a single bird that Crab had passed.
1892 Field 7 May 695/3 Directly after he pegged birds properly, making a good point.
1983 in Notes & Queries 228 485/1 Peg, of a gun-dog, to seize squatting game instead of flushing it.
1986 Shooting Aug. 35/1 Older dogs are better for driving in reared birds as they are not so inclined to nip in and ‘peg’ birds.
14. transitive. Military slang. To cause (a person) to be liable for punishment; spec. to place on a charge. Cf. peg n.1 1c.
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1920 M. A. Mügge War Diary 221 Pegged, to have one's name put down for punishment.
1942 A. Lewis in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories (1976) 55 The snoop has pegged you for being out of camp last night when you were on duty. I'm on the peg, too.
15. intransitive. slang. To die; also transitive with it. Cf. to peg out 3 at Phrasal verbs.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1931 V. Palmer Birthday in Separate Lives 101 ‘How's the casualty?’.. ‘Looks as if he might peg before they get him to the quacks.’
1977 P. Kavanagh By Night Unstarred vii. 62 Said he was reading in an English paper about a man who got ten years for marrying a second woman before the first one pegged.
1990 Times 18 Apr. 3/6 I just want to spread peace after I peg it.
Phrasal verbs
With adverbs in specialized senses. to peg back to peg out † 1. transitive. Apparently: to exclude entirely, cut out. Obsolete.
Horse Racing.
transitive. To pull past, overtake; (also) to gain on another horse by (a specified distance); (also more generally) to pick up (a point or advantage) so as to reduce or eliminate an opponent's lead in a contest; to reduce (such a lead) by gradual advance.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > keep pace with or overtake
to show the waya1382
buttock1607
to run head and girth1796
shoot1868
to peg back1928
society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > score > make up point or score
to peg back1971
1928 Sunday Express 24 June 22/3 He came..in the last furlong to peg back the flying French colt.
1932 New Yorker 14 May 52/2 Burgoo King pegged him back three furlongs from home.
1971 Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 44/4 Owen de Souza pegged one back for Blues in the dying minutes when he converted a penalty-push.
1977 D. Francis Risk ii. 18 Open ditch next; Tapestry met it just right and we pegged back a length in mid-air.
1983 Times 7 Mar. 5/3 In the last few days before polling there were increasing signs that the Government was pegging back Labour's lead in the opinion polls.
2004 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 20 Feb. 30 Making ground hand over fist from the last fence as Kings Mistral faltered, he pegged back leader Wain Mountain in the final strides.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclude [verb (transitive)]
exclude1382
to face (a person) out ofc1530
repulse1548
seclude1581
excommune1650
to peg out1672
to include out1934
1672–3 [implied in: A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 262 You have made my Lord Summus Pontifex and Pontifex Maximus to..the pegging out of the Prince. (at pegging-out at pegging n. 1b)].
2. transitive. To mark out with pegs; esp. to mark the boundaries of (a piece of ground, a claim for mining, etc.) with pegs placed at the corners; also (Australian and New Zealand) intransitive. Also (Angling): = sense 6b. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] > fix boundary of > with stakes
stakec1330
stob1550
dool1656
stoop1663
post1712
to peg out1852
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)] > to mark out for competition > to allot a position for competition
to peg out1902
peg1947
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > catch fish [verb (transitive)] > to mark out for competition
to peg out1927
peg1947
1852 W. H. Hall Pract. Exp. Diggings Victoria 23 I..selected an unoccupied spot..pegged out eight square feet, paid the licence-fee, and returned to my mates.
1873 V. Pyke Story of Wild Will Enderby (1889) I. iv. 17 He progressed up the Gorge trying ‘prospects’ in many places, and at length he was satisfied to ‘peg out’.
1890 Goldfields of Victoria 17 Several other claims have been pegged out and registered.
1902 Fishing Gaz. 13 Sept. 191/1 The contestants were pegged out ten yards apart.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xx. 193 The huge outcrop which he knew on the Broken Hill might be tin..and he decided to peg out forty acres of it.
1921 K. S. Prichard Black Opal 168 Roy O'Mara's bottomed on opal there...Got some pretty good colours, and we're goin' to peg out.
1927 ‘Float & Fly’ Fishing Matches ii. 8 A good fisherman will usually overcome the drawback of a bad swim, always given that the water has been pegged out in a reasonable manner.
1947 ‘Cheshire Roamer’ Beginner's Guide Match Fishing iv. 15 Before the match can take place the river bank has to be ‘pegged out’.
1954 B. Miles Stars my Blanket xxiv. 207 A big rush followed the discovery and five hundred claims were pegged out in an area three miles wide and eight miles long.
1992 Economist 4 Jan. 36/2 Both [candidates] have pegged out comprehensive programmes by which they wish to be judged.
3. intransitive. slang. To die; (formerly also) †to be ruined (obsolete).
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
afalleOE
wanec1000
fallOE
ebba1420
to go backward?a1425
to go down?1440
decay1483
sink?a1513
delapsea1530
reel1529
decline1530
to go backwards1562
rue1576
droop1577
ruina1600
set1607
lapse1641
to lose ground1647
to go to pigs and whistles1794
to come (also go) down in the world1819
to peg out1852
to lose hold, one's balance1877
to go under1879
toboggan1887
slip1930
to turn down1936
1852 J. M. Field Job & his Children in America's Lost Plays (1941) XIV. 214 To think what a blessed mess of piety one's got into, and 'bleeged to keep it up until Daddy Day pegs out.
1855 Kansas Herald of Freedom (Lawrence) 29 Sept. 2/5 Both parties are badly cut, and we are happy to state that the free-soiler is in a fair way to ‘peg out’, while the pro-slavery man is out and ready for another ‘tilt’.
1870 Echo 10 Mar. (Farmer) Then..the heart-broken man exclaimed, ‘Oh, George, George, why did you peg out?’
1915 J. Turner Let. 30 May in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 14 It is a happy thought that a man can only peg out or be wiped out once.
1950 J. Cannan Murder Included ii. 24 If she pegs out..I'll get you a dog that is a dog.
1994 R. Davies Cunning Man (1995) 444 A saint mustn't just peg out in bed.
4. transitive. Croquet. To put (a ball) out by making it hit the winning-peg. Also intransitive: to hit the winning-peg with the ball as the final stroke in the game.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > play croquet [verb (transitive)] > types of play or stroke
croquet1858
roquet1859
run1863
spoon1865
wire1866
to get the rush (on a ball)1868
rush1868
to peg out1869
cut1874
split1877
peel1914
1869 Croquet: Implem. & Laws (rev. ed.) 9 Rover, a ball that has gone through all its hoops and is ready to peg out.
1875 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 48 A rover may be pegged out by the adversary, but only if he be a rover also.
1966 D. Miller & R. Thorp Croquet & how to play It vii. 58 If Red is a rover and it hits the peg during its turn then it is pegged out and is removed from the lawn for the rest of the game.
1990 Country Life 24 May 142/3 He had attempted to peel black and peg it out but it had not worked, and that was life—and croquet.
5. intransitive. Cribbage. To score the winning point at cribbage; spec. to win the game by reaching the last hole before the show of hands.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [verb (intransitive)] > win
to peg out?1870
?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 81 He may with a very poor hand be just able to ‘show’ or peg out.
1953 H. Phillips Pan Bk. Card Games (1960) 148 It is the player who pegs out first who wins, not the player who would have the better score if the hand were fully played out.
1993 Daily Mail (Nexis) 13 Nov. 48 When the game [of cribbage] comes to an end, the winning player's pegs are in the last holes of the board: this is known as 'pegging out'.
1999 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 14 Jan. 5 Phelps served as music director..while teaching his own children to..peg out on a cribbage board.
6. intransitive. To lose one's strength or energy while performing a task; to flag; to pass out.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > exhaust one's strength or energy
to break one's back or necka1616
to melt one's grease1645
break1726
to run out of steam1836
to overdo it1853
to peg out1887
1887 W. F. Hinman Corporal Si Klegg 457 Don't ye be afeard o' my peggin' out, Shorty.
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xviii. 243 Fuzzy pegged out after her first hour.
1953 D. Stivens Gambling Ghost 63 You pegged out soon after leaving that sly-grog shanty.
1984 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 866/1 Peg out, to have one's strength fail during some endeavour, esp. sporting.
7. transitive. English regional. To pay out, give out (a rope or line). rare.
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay up or out
to pay out1438
to pay over1668
to shell down1801
pony1819
tip1829
to fork out, over, or up1831
to stump up1833
to put up1838
stump1841
pungle1851
to ante up1880
cough1894
to peg out1895
brass1898
1895 J. Nicholson Kilwuddie (ed. 4) 160 Let her gang—Grannie! peg oot the line!
8. transitive. To hang (washing) on a line using clothes pegs.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (transitive)] > hang washing on clothes-line
to peg out1922
1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 102 Helped his wife to peg out the washing on the clothes line in the meadow.
1978 J. Thomson Question of Identity xii. 115 Betty Lovell was pegging out sheets on a washing-line.
2004 Diva Mar. 16/3 Ladies who peg out their panties to dry in the breeze.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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PEG
PEG n. Chemistry polyethylene glycol.
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the world > matter > chemistry > polymer chemistry > polymers (named others) > [noun] > polyethylene glycol
polyethylene alcohol1862
polyethylene glycol1886
polyglycol1889
PEG1959
1959 Analyt. Chem. 31 1375 This method separates vitamin A and vitamin D on a partition column using..polyethylene glycol 600 (PEG 600) as the immobile phase.
1997 New Scientist 17 May 20/2 The Food and Drug Administration has already approved the use of PEG coatings to protect certain proteins from antibody attack in people with rare conditions such as adenosine deaminase deficiency.
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n.21922v.c1450as lemmas
- to hit a low note
- to hit a man when he is down
- to hit a nerve
- to hit a note
- to hit a person between the eye
- to hit a person between the eyes
- to hit a person in the eye
- to hit a person in the eyes
- to hit a person up for
- to hit a raw nerve
- to hit a rough patch
- to hit a sticky patch
- to hit a —— note
- to hit any one a blow
- to hit between the eye
- to hit between the eyes
- to hit bottom
- to hit cigarettes
- to hit cross one over of the thumbs
- to hit cross one over on the thumbs
- to give a etc ride
- to give a etc seeing to
- to give a etc time
- to give a etc voice
- to give a fair wind