peg

peg is a 3-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
2. noun. A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
3. noun. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
4. noun. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
5. noun. A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
6. transitive verb. To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
7. transitive verb. To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
8. intransitive verb. To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
9. noun. a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface

   Synonyms: nog

10. noun. a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

    Synonyms: oarlock, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin

11. noun. regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
12. noun. a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

    Synonyms: leg, pegleg

13. noun. informal terms for the leg

    "fever left him weak on his sticks"

    Synonyms: pin, stick

14. noun. small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

    Synonyms: pin

15. verb. stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations

    "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar"

16. verb. fasten or secure with a wooden pin

    "peg a tent"

17. verb. pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
18. verb. succeed in obtaining a position

    "He nailed down a spot at Harvard"

    Synonyms: nail

Synonyms

nog, oarlock, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin, leg, pegleg, stick, nail

Common word forms

pegs, pegged, pegger, pegging, pegless

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