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
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.
pegging
present participle of peg
Source: Wiktionary
Peg"ging, n.
Definition: The act or process of fastening with pegs.
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
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
