Peg

(noun.) a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.

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

(noun.) regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument.

(noun.) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.

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

(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'.

(verb.) fasten or secure with a wooden pin; 'peg a tent'.

(verb.) pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into.

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• The vote has become a convenient peg upon which to hang aspirations that are not at all sure of their own meaning. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• His helmet hung on a peg and his face showed clearly. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Meaning sir,' observed Wegg, with a propitiatory face to draw him out, and with another peg at his friend and brother, 'in the way of money? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Very good,' said he, taking his hat from its peg, and putting a pair of handcuffs in his pocket as if they were his gloves. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I foresee there is money to be made out of this, besides taking that fellow down a peg. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Ten steps with each foot took me along parallel with the wall of the house, and again I marked my spot with a peg. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Mr. Snagsby pulls off his sleeves and his grey coat, pulls on his black coat, takes his hat from its peg. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He makes tremendous rows,--roars, and pegs at the floor with some frightful instrument. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• These iron plates were usually cast in lengths of six feet, and they were secured to transverse wooden sleepers by spikes and oaken pegs. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Other forms of pegs followed, such as the metal screw pegs, and machines to cut them off from a continuous spiral wire from which they were made. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Making and applying pegs by hand was too slow work, and machines were at once contrived for making them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• As one invention necessitates and begets others, so special forms of machines for sawing and working up wood into pegs were devised. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Cheap shoes could only be made by roughly fastening the soles to the uppers by wooden pegs, whose row of projecting points within has made many a man and boy do unnecessary penance. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Fifty-five Million Pairs of Boots and Shoes then Annually Pegged. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He was a slow sailer on a wind of happiness, but he took a cross cut for the rendezvous, and pegged away as if he were scoring furiously at cribbage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Pegged rollers were the earliest form for this purpose, and later corrugated rollers and power-worked hammers were employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In 1858 also, about the same time the Sturtevant pegging machine was introduced, the shoe-sewing machine was developed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He was perpetually pegging at the floor the moment she left his sight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• What with rum and pepper,--and pepper and rum,--I should think his pegging must be nearly over. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He devised a pegging machine, and out of his scanty earnings and at odd hours, with much pain and labour, and by borrowing money, he finally completed it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The machine made what was called peg wood, a long ribbon strip of seasoned wood, sharpened on one edge and designed to be fed into the machine for pegging shoes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The pegging machines and sewing machines worked a revolution in shoemaking. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I see you pegging away at your books, no, I mean studying hard. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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