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UK
/pˈɛɡ/
]
[ US /ˈpɛɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛɡ/ ]
VERB
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
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stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar -
fasten or secure with a wooden pin
peg a tent -
succeed in obtaining a position
He nailed down a spot at Harvard
NOUN
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
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informal terms for the leg
fever left him weak on his sticks - a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
How To Use peg In A Sentence
- A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
- Even Peggy Noonan on MTP struggled this morning to describe as benignly as possible how McCain is noticeably putting a lot of energy into keeping a lid on his anger. Obama Unleashes Wave Of Mailers Attacking McCain's Health Plan
- Ed would drill by hand and blast away the rock, exposing the pegmatite.
- Doubtless his friends and family were working on his behalf and might well be involved with Peggy Say's campaign.
- The goal was another peg, some 30 feet and almost horizontally leftwards across yet another blank wall.
- The US dollar and currencies pegged to the US dollar - like the ringgit - appear to carry the greatest weight.
- So I put the guitar on clean, put on the delay effect, and I arpeggiate the chords at the right speed to get this really crazy thumping sound. All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
- Exact positions of the 120 pegs will depend on the state of the beach due to the recent coastal erosion.
- He also seems to write with little concern for cadence, leaving himself stumbling over excess syllables and quixotically stuffing verbal square pegs into musical round holes when it comes time to sing.
- Não tiveram pra onde ir, ninguém veio buscar. entre uma conversa e outra, um vacilão falando que tinha muito oportinista na favela, muito cara que pegou casa sem precisar, pois já tinha seu barraco, logo foi calado pela multidão que beirava o córrego, com gritos um tiozinho chegou e falou que ninguém tava brincando de ter lucro ali não, que ninguém tava fingindo que precisava morar, que ele havia perdido tudo pro trator. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Outrage at violent São Paulo eviction
