Definition of peg

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Peg (n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase To take one down peg..

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Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points..
Pegasean :: Pegasean (a.) Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry..
Theorbo :: Theorbo (n.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes..
Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) Graphic granite. See under Granite.
Pegging :: Pegging (n.) The act or process of fastening with pegs.
Parapegm :: Parapegm (n.) An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place..
Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by jumping, as in draughts..
Float :: Float (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
Pegmatitic :: Pegmatitic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite..
Harmaline :: Harmaline (n.) An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts..
Peg :: Peg (n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained..
Scapegoat :: Scapegoat (n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others..
Trepeget :: Trepeget (n.) A trebuchet.
Bibliopegistic :: Bibliopegistic (a.) Pertaining to the art of binding books.
Spilikin :: Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins.
Melanorrhoea :: Melanorrhoea (n.) An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu, and yelds a valuable black varnish..
Ticktack :: Ticktack (n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.
Setterwort :: Setterwort (n.) The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots..
Pegging :: Pegging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pe.
Spill :: Spill (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile..
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