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peg(2) (iou)



peg verb. Infl. -gg-. LME.
[from PEG noun1.]
verb trans. Gorge, stuff, (oneself). rare. Only in LME.
verb trans. Drive or insert a peg or pegs into; fasten, attach, or block up with a peg or pegs; insert or fasten as a peg; spec. (a) thrust a peg into the nose of (a pig etc.) to stop it from rooting; (b) insert small wooden pegs into (a stalk of tobacco); (c) Cricket drive pegs into (the face of a bat) to try and level the grain. Freq. foll. by down, in, out, etc. M16.
D. H. Lawrence They were pegging down carnations. B. Hines He pegged the stick into the soil. High Magazine The tent..thrashed and groaned as I began pegging it. J. Cox His baggy white trousers..pegged at the ankles.
b. Fasten a sole on to (a shoe etc.) with wooden pegs. M19.
a. verb trans. Drive (a thought, idea, etc.) into a person by repetition. E-M17.
b. verb intrans. Work persistently, toil. Foll. by along, away (at), on, etc. colloq. E19.
M. Twain I still lack about 30,000 words..I shall peg along day by day. People I have just kept pegging away year after year.
a. verb intrans. & trans. Aim (a missile, weapon, etc.) at. L17.
b. verb trans. Baseball. Throw (the ball) long and low; stop (a base-runner) with such a throw. US colloq. L19.
c. verb trans. Of a pointer or setter: point at, set, (a game-bird). L19.
verb trans. Strike or pierce with a peg or sharp implement; harpoon. Now rare or obsolete. M18.
verb trans. fig.
a. Confine; restrict. (Foll. by down.) E19.
b. Commerce. Prevent the price of (stock etc.) from falling or rising by buying or selling freely at a given price; fix (a price, wage, exchange rate, etc.) at or at a certain level or in line with a certain standard (also foll. by to). L19.
Daily Telegraph British Rail is to peg prices for a year. Which? Increases in farm spending will be pegged to a maximum.
c. Categorize; form a fixed opinion of; identify (as). Freq. in have pegged. Chiefly N. Amer. colloq. E20.
J. Ludwig: Mitchell has her pegged. TV Guide (Canada) The man Jack pegged as the passer of a counterfeit bill.
verb intrans. Walk vigorously or quickly. Foll. by along, away, off, etc. dial. & colloq. E19.
a. verb trans. & intrans. Mark (the score) in cribbage with pegs on a cribbage-board. E19.
b. verb intrans. Foll. by out: (a) score the winning point in cribbage; (b) hit the peg in croquet as one's final stroke of a game. L19.
c. verb trans. Foll. by back: (esp. in horse-racing) reduce (an opponent's lead) by a specified distance, gain on; overtake. E20.
fig.: Times The Government was pegging back Labour's lead in the opinion polls.
verb trans. Mark out with pegs; esp. mark out the boundaries of (a mining claim etc.) with pegs. Usu. foll. by out. M19.
Daily Telegraph Regulations will have to be interpreted by the prospectors before they start pegging their claims.
b. spec. (Angling). Mark out (a stretch of river-bank etc.) with pegs; allot a position or peg to (an angler). E20.
verb intrans. Foll. by out: die. slang. M19.
M. Kington Many of them seem to suffer from..oxygen starvation..and peg out.
verb trans. Hang (washing) out or out with pegs on a clothes-line. E20.
S. Naipaul Neighbours saw her..pegging the sodden clothes out. V. S. Pritchett Picks up the washing and pegs it back on the line.
pegged ppl adjective (a) secured or fastened together with a peg or pegs; (b) N. Amer. = PEGTOP adjective: E17.
pegger noun E17.