[Sửa]Pin, dowel, rod, stick, bolt; thole or thole-pin;clothes-peg, hook: Pegs and glue are often used for fasteninggood furniture together. Hang your coat on the peg. 2 off thepeg. ready-made, ready-to-wear, stock: As bespoke clothing isso dear, I buy mine off the peg.
[Sửa]Take down a peg (or two).humble, diminish, lower, subdue, suppress, downgrade, dishonour,mortify, humiliate, put down, abase, debase, devalue ordevaluate: He was acting a bit high and mighty, so she took himdown a peg or two.
[Sửa]Fasten, secure, make fast, fix, attach, pin: Theypegged the tent firmly to the ground.
[Sửa]Fix, attach, pin, set(by), control by, limit by, restrict, confine, freeze, bind,regulate, govern: In indexing, the rate of inflation is oftenused for pegging wages.
[Sửa]Toss, throw, shy, flip, sling, cast:I'll bet a fiver you can't peg that stone across the river.
[Sửa]Peg away or US also along. work (away) (at), persevere (at),apply oneself (to), persist (in or at), go to or at (it), keepat (it), stick to or with or at (it), stay with or at (it),carry on (with or at), Colloq plug away (at), beaver away (at),hammer or bang or peck away (at): Trevor pegs away at hishomework every evening.
[Sửa]A a usu. cylindrical pin or bolt of wood ormetal, often tapered at one end, and used for holding esp. twothings together. b such a peg attached to a wall etc. and usedfor hanging garments etc. on. c a peg driven into the groundand attached to a rope for holding up a tent. d a bung forstoppering a cask etc. e each of several pegs used to tightenor loosen the strings of a violin etc. f a small peg,matchstick, etc. stuck into holes in a board for calculating thescores at cribbage.
[Sửa]V.tr. (pegged, pegging) 1 (usu. foll. bydown, in, out, etc.) fix (a thing) with a peg.
[Sửa]Econ. astabilize (prices, wages, exchange rates, etc.). b prevent theprice of (stock etc.) from falling or rising by freely buying orselling at a given price.
[Sửa]Mark (the score) with pegs on acribbage-board.
[Sửa]A person withan artificial leg. peg on = peg away. peg out 1 sl. die.
[Sửa]Croquet hit the peg withthe ball as the final stroke in a game.
[Sửa]Mark the boundariesof (land etc.). a peg to hang an idea etc. on a suitableoccasion or pretext etc. for it. a round (or square) peg in asquare (or round) hole a misfit. take a person down a peg ortwo humble a person. [ME, prob. of LG or Du. orig.: cf. MDu.pegge, Du. dial. peg, LG pigge]
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