pegging machine (pegingmashen")

In shoemaking, a pegger. pegging-rammer (peg'ing-ram"ėr), n. In found ing, a pointed rammer with which the sand is packed in making molds. peggyl (peg'i), a. [ The lower incisors are peggy and pointed. Quain, Med. Dict., p. 1595. peggy2 (peg'i), n.; pl. peggies (-iz). [Prob. in both senses a familiar use of the fem. name Peggy , dim. of Peg , a var. of Meg , Mag , abbr. of Margaret . Cf. mag1, madgel , etc.] 1. Any peggy one of several small warblers, as the white- Pehlevi, n. and a. throat, Sylvia cinerea, or blackcap, S. atri capilla , or garden-warbler, S. hortensis .-2. A slender poker having a small part of the end bent at right angles, used for raking a fire. Hall i well . [Local, Eng.] peggy-chaw (peg'i-cha), n . The whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea. [Prov. Eng.] peggy-cutthroat (peg'i-kut" thrōt), n. Same as peggy-chaw.