pegboxn.
/ˈpɛɡbɒks/, U.S. /ˈpɛɡˌbɑks/ Music.
A structure at the head of some stringed instruments, including members of the lute and violin families, where the strings are attached to the tuning pegs.
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1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 81/2 It [sc. the rebec] was shaped like the half of a pear, and was everywhere solid except at the two extremities, the upper of which was formed into a peg-box identical with that still in use, and surmounted by a carved human head.
1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 524/1 The head [of the lute], containing the peg-box, is generally bent back at an angle from the neck.
1976 D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance 25/4 From the twelfth to the fourteenth century, the instrument is regularly referred to in French literature as mandoire or sometimes mandola and illustrations often reveal the instrument's most recognizable feature; its sickle-shaped pegbox.
2002 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 14 Apr. 46 The peg box at the end of the fiddle's neck is carved to resemble a horse's head.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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