shoepegs

Used for spools, shoepegs, wood pulp, and barrel hoops.

Seasoning of Wood

When a tree is cut down, the main body is sold or used for lumber, railing or paling, the stump for matches and shoepegs, the knees for ship-building, and the branches for fuel.

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It 1857

A decade later Helper reproached a South that had not given heed to Gregg: "It is a fact well known to every intelligent Southerner that we are compelled to go to the North for almost every article of utilty and adornment, from matches, shoepegs and paintings up to cotton-mills, steamships and statuary ....

The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 1921