Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who fastens with pegs.
- noun In shoemaking, a machine for driving the pegs in a shoe; a shoepegging machine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who fastens with pegs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
pegs (in any sense) - noun A person who, or machine that, attached the
uppers to thesoles of shoes using wooden pegs
Etymologies
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Examples
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Romney was a one-pegger, too fiscal whose money helped him teeter longer than he should have been able to before he, too, fell on his face.
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Over the past five years or so, this mixture created a variation on the 1930s: China, the largest dollar pegger, kept its currency cheap, driving rival exporters in Asia to hold their exchange rates down also.
A 21st-Century Bretton Woods Sebastian Mallaby 2008
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March 18, 2007 at 3:07 pm aww jim sorry to hear that. im a pegger too!
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It's the '50s so he's working at a sartorial deficit: pegger slacks hiked up to his pecs, horizontal-striped Ban-Lon shirts.
Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994
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He supports his mother and sister on meagre wages earned as a shoe-pegger in John
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He supports his mother and sister on meagre wages earned as a shoe-pegger in
Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation James Otis 1880
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What a tent-pegger Rainbow would have made, eh, old boy? 'he said, patting the horse's neck.
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870
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He supports his mother and sister on meagre wages earned as a shoe-pegger in John
The Tin Box and What it Contained Horatio Alger 1865
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He supports his mother and sister on meagre wages earned as a shoe-pegger in John
Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant Horatio Alger 1865
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"I am a pegger, and the squire has introduced a pegging machine, so he has discharged all the peggers."
Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret Horatio Alger 1865
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