Category:Peg

Peg, n. Etym: [oe. pegge; cf. Sw. pigg, dan. pig a point, prickle, And e. peak.]

1. A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, In attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

2. A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: a support; a reason; a pretext; As, a peg to hang a claim upon.

3. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are Strained. Shak.

4. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

5. A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "to take one down peg." To screw papal authority to the highest peg. Barrow. And took your grandess down a peg. Hudibras. Peg ladder, a ladder with but one standard, into which cross pieces Are inserted. -- peg tankard, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide The liquor into equal portions. "drink down to your peg." Longfellow. -- peg tooth. See fleam tooth under fleam. -- peg top, a boy's top which is spun by throwing it. -- screw peg, a small screw without a head, for fastening soles.

Peg Peg, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pegged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pegging.]

1. To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg Shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely. I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails. Shak.

2. (cribbage)

Defn: to score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged Twelwe points. [colloq.]

Peg Peg, v. i.

Defn: to work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, At, or away; as, to peg away at a task.