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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as tent-pin.

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Examples

  • Some won't forgive Anne McCaffrey her tent-peg hypothesis, while others won't let Heinlein get away with any of a wide variety of sins.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Susan Palwick 2008

  • Some won't forgive Anne McCaffrey her tent-peg hypothesis, while others won't let Heinlein get away with any of a wide variety of sins.

    My WisCon Schedule Susan Palwick 2008

  • They drive tent-peg size fangs into your neck and rip open your tender belly with windmilling rear claws while their foreclaws hold you in place and they call you dirty names in leopardese.

    Terror Week presents: Eaters of Man! David Campbell 2007

  • "Leopards drive tent-peg size fangs into your neck and rip open your tender belly with windmilling rear claws while their foreclaws hold you in place and they call you dirty names in leopardese."

    Terror Week presents: Eaters of Man! David Campbell 2007

  • "Leopards drive tent-peg size fangs into your neck and rip open your tender belly with windmilling rear claws while their foreclaws hold you in place and they call you dirty names in leopardese."

    Archive 2007-11-01 David Campbell 2007

  • They drive tent-peg size fangs into your neck and rip open your tender belly with windmilling rear claws while their foreclaws hold you in place and they call you dirty names in leopardese.

    Archive 2007-11-01 David Campbell 2007

  • We even found tent-peg holes and trampled hollows where they had had a couple of doorways.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • Sons of Flight13? withered be their hands! palsied be their fingers! the foul mustachioed fellows, basest of the Arabs that ever hammered tent-peg, sneaking cats, goats of Al-Akhfash!

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • No matter he's King of only about as far as he can see, he's paid for mercs enough to pound you inta the ground like a tent-peg if you make him mad.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • This time he worked faster because he was simply sharpening the stick, turning it into something that looked like a small tent-peg.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

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