PEGGING

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peg

(verb) stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations; “The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar”

peg, peg down

(verb) fasten or secure with a wooden pin; “peg a tent”

peg

(verb) pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

pegging (countable and uncountable, plural peggings)

The act of fastening with a peg.

Pegs collectively.

The activity of artificial climbing on crags and in quarries outside the main mountain areas.

(sex) The act of anal penetration of a man by a woman wearing a strap-on dildo.

Determined perseverance in work; pegging away.

(dated) A thrashing.

Verb

pegging

present participle of peg

Source: Wiktionary


Peg"ging, n.

Definition: The act or process of fastening with pegs.

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, 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)

Definition: To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points. [Colloq.]

Peg, v. i.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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