Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of fastening with a peg or pegs, or of furnishing with pegs.
- n. Pegs collectively, or material for pegs.
- n. A beating; a drubbing.
- n. The process or method of catching turtles with the peg.
- n. Dogged or plodding perseverance in work.
- n. In harvesting tobacco, the driving of a peg into the cut stalk to hang it upon while curing. For other methods see spearing, splitting.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of peg.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of fastening with pegs.
Examples
“I am simply asking how one can establish an objective moral truth with the same degree of certainty that science achieves, say, in pegging the number of protons in a calcium nucleus at 20.”
“Blue writes” It is amazing how much Opus One costs”, and he is right in pegging it as expensive.”
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“The Finance committee said it was "sympathetic to the idea of pegging social pensions to some index".”
“Pinning, known as pegging or dowelling in woodworking, allows rigid but dismountable joints to be made.”
“On Thursday, Swiss National Bank officials floated the idea of pegging the franc's value to the euro, as a last-ditch effort to halt the currency's wild ride.”
“OPEC floated the idea of pegging crude oil to a basket of currencies, instead of the U.S. dollar.”
“but, unhappily, though there is very little drunkenness, there is a great deal of what is called "pegging" -- an intermittent kind of tippling which goes on all day long, beginning very early and ending very late.”
“Now, if he's wearing the bear suit while he's doing the nasty, and Aisha is wearing leg braces, or is in an "iron lung", or if she's "pegging" him...”
“Critical Ass- it seems approriate you mention "pegging" with your name being Critical Ass...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pegging’.
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Cribbage
cribbage, cribbage board, spillikin, his heels, peg, cards, nobs, crib, dealer, pegging, pip, last card and 23 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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Glassmaking terms
avolio, aeolipile, rhyton, came, acid etching, acid stamping, twist, air twist, annealing, at-the-fire, glory hole, glazier and 67 more...
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Savage Love
Mr. Dan Savage's delightful vocabulary
santorum, huckabee, ggg, lovecast, pegging, dtmfa, blow dude, posse of hos, look to your game, turns your crank
Tweets
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reesetee The process of pricking molten glass with a tool that leaves small, air-filled hollows. When the glass is covered with a second gather, the hollows become air traps. This technique is used to decorate knops and paperweights. Nov 9, 2007