单词 | pegging |
释义 | peggingn. 1. a. The action of peg v. (in various senses); an instance of this. See also level pegging n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > [noun] > with pins or pegs keying?1427 pinning?1544 peggage1611 pegging1611 pinnage1611 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > score > marking score pegging1823 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > steadiness in price > [noun] > maintaining prices at certain level price support1927 pegging1931 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chevilleure, a pegging; a fastening with pegs. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cii. 317 Called..Bearefoot, Setterwort, and Settergrasse, because Husbandmen use to make a hole, and put it into the Eare or Dewlap of their cattle, which they call Pegging or Settering. 1736 W. Ellis New Exper. Husbandry 62 The..[swelling] is cured by putting a Bit of Hellebore Root in the gristly Part of the Ear which is called Pegging. 1823 C. Lamb Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist in Elia 80 The pegging [at cribbage] teased her. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 292 The poor animal has..to undergo the painful operations of pegging, blistering, swimming, and firing. 1885 New Bk. Sports 311 A great many boys never master the true overhand fashion of pegging. 1931 Observer 11 Jan. 19/1 Mr. Scultin's views about the pegging of wages are unknown. 1977 Times 24 Dec. 9/3 Continental motoring will be given added impetus..by the pegging of most cross-Channel ferry prices. 1991 Choice Jan. 67/3 Two-berth trailer tents..are easy to erect as they need a minimum of pegging. b. With adverbs, as pegging-away, pegging-down, pegging-out, pegging-up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > forming or marking boundary > with stakes pegging-out1890 staking1952 1672–3 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 262 You have made my Lord Summus Pontifex and Pontifex Maximus to..the pegging out of the Prince. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Apr. 6/1 No doubt there will be new ‘peggings up.’ 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. iii. 78 The adjacent lot..was to be had for the pegging-out first. 1899 M. H. Kingsley W. Afr. Stud. i. 7 Then follows full details of the pegging-out of J. and his funeral, &c. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxvii. 352 They told me something of Davenport's work: of his continual pegging away in Abdulla's sector. 1948 G. Crowther Outl. Money (rev. ed.) viii. 248 ‘Pegging’ has usually meant ‘pegging up’, but we can invent the term ‘pegging down’ for the practice that grew up among some governments in the nineteen-thirties of maintaining their currencies at a fixed undervaluation. 2003 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 31 Dec. The pegging-out of one basket of washing. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > undersized kernels peggings1743 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Dec. viii. 60 This we call Peggings, being composed of those Corals that were swept off the Heap of Wheat, after Throwing. 1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 2 What we in Hertfordshire call Peggings..being what comes from the Underline or Blighted, or other Wheat Ears, most of which contain in them very thin little Kernels, that will easily part from their Chaff. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pegging,..pegs collectively, or material for pegs. Compounds pegging awl n. Shoemaking (now historical) a short, square-bladed awl for making the holes in the soles and heels of shoes into which pegs are inserted; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > awl awlc1000 St. Crispin's lance1650 pegging awla1700 stab-awl1840 a1700 in W. G. Day Pepys Ballads (1987) V. 413 My husband is lusty, young, proper, and tall, Yet I think that he has but a short Peging-aul. 1765 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 158/2 85 pair of shoemakers nippers and pincers, 33 pegging-awls, 37 awls of other sorts. 1861 Harper's Mag. May 731/2 In one corner of the room, on a shoemaker's bench, sat the old man, who was so intently engaged with his pegging awl and hammer that he did not notice our entrance. 1998 T. Olson Blue Ridge Folklife v. 151 In the old days, shoemakers would use hand-tools exclusively: saddle hammers.., pegging awls (to make holes into which the pegs were inserted), [etc.]. pegging jack n. Shoemaking (now rare) an apparatus for holding a boot or shoe while pegs are inserted. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1648/2 Pegging-jack, an implement for holding a boot or shoe and varying its position while being pegged. 1945 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 27 May 24/4 One lot of shoe machinery, one Champion stitcher, one Champion finisher, two Singer patching machines, sole cutter, pegging jack, work bench. pegging machine n. Shoemaking (now historical) a machine for pegging shoes. ΚΠ 1861 Dawson's Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Times 6 Mar. 1/4 One of the greatest curiosities is the pegging machine, which inserts the awl, cuts out the pegs from a strip of wood, and drives them in, all at one operation, and so rapidly that it will peg two rows around the sole of a shoe in 20 seconds. 1897 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 177/2 ‘I'll bet anything they's one thing they can't never make, with all their inventin', an' that's a machine to peg shoes with.’ This, from a shoemaker, nearly a generation after the pegging-machine had come into general use. 1999 Early Amer. Homes (Nexis) 1 Apr. 54 By 1833 Samuel Preston..had invented a pegging machine, but shoemaking did not become an industrial operation until the development of a heavy-duty stitching machine in 1864. pegging-rammer n. Founding (now rare) a pointed rammer for compacting sand in the process of making moulds. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1650/1 Pegging-rammer (Founding), a pointed rammer for packing the sand in molding. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > peg-top casting-top1657 peerya1722 pegtop1747 peg1766 boxer1840 pegging-top1899 1899 Cent. Mag. Oct. 958/1 The poor boy's comin' roun' as fast as a peggin'-top. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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