Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- 4noun
One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
- 5noun
A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive verb
To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
- 8intransitive verb
To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
- 9noun
a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
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- 10noun
a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- 11noun
regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- 12noun
a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
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- 13noun
informal terms for the leg
"fever left him weak on his sticks"
- 14noun
small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
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- 15verb
stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
"The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar"
- 16verb
fasten or secure with a wooden pin
"peg a tent"
- 17verb
pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
- 18verb
succeed in obtaining a position
"He nailed down a spot at Harvard"
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