British English : peg If you peg something somewhere or peg it down, you fix it there with pegs. VERB...trying to peg a double sheet on a washing line on a blustery day.
a small cylindrical pin or dowel, sometimes slightly tapered, used to join two parts together
a pin pushed or driven into a surface: used to mark scores, define limits, support coats, etc
(music ) any of several pins passing through the head (peg box) of a stringed instrument, which can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them . See also pin (sense 11
Also called : : clothes peg (British ) a split or hinged pin for fastening wet clothes to a line to dry . US and Canadian equivalent : : clothespin
(informal ) a person's leg
(Northern England , dialect ) a tooth
(British ) a small drink of wine or spirits, esp of brandy or whisky and soda
an opportunity or pretext for doing something ⇒ ■ a peg on which to hang a theory
a mountaineering piton
(croquet ) a post that a player's ball must strike to win the game
(angling ) a fishing station allotted to an angler in a competition, marked by a peg in the ground
(informal ) a level of self-esteem, importance, etc (esp in the phrases bring or take down a peg)
(informal ) See peg leg
See off the peg
(transitive) to knock or insert a peg into or pierce with a peg
(transitive) sometimes foll by down to secure with pegs ⇒ ■ to peg a tent
(mountaineering ) to insert or use pitons
(transitive) to mark (a score) with pegs, as in some card games
(transitive) (informal ) to aim and throw (missiles) at a target
(intransitive; followed by away, along, etc ) (mainly British ) to work steadily ⇒ ■ he pegged away at his job for years
(transitive) to stabilize (the price of a commodity, an exchange rate, etc) by legislation or market operations