peg (peg)

[ Shoemakers' pegs, glued to paper rib bon for feeding to a pegging machine. and in a variety of shapes, some being screws. See also cuts under peg - float, pegger, and peg - strip. (c) In mus i cal instruments of the stringed group, a pin of wood or metal to which one end of a string is fastened, and which may be turned round in its socket so as to tighten or called tuning - peg or tuning - pin.) In instruments the loosen the string's tension, and thus alter its tones of Alse viol family the pegs are in the head, while in the dulci mer, harp, pianoforte, and similar instruments they are set along one side of the frame. O, you are well tuned now! But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am. Shak ., Othello, ii. 1. 203. What did he doe with her fingers so small?... He made him peggs to his violl with all. The Miller and the King's Daughter (Child's Ballads, [II. 358). (d) A pin which serves to transmit power or perform any other function in machinery, etc. (e) A projecting pin on which to hang anything. (f) A small wedge-shaped projecting piece of hard wood fixed to a jewelers' board, upon which the workman performs most of his operations. (g) A pin used in the game of cribbage to mark the points. (h) A pin thrust or driven into a hole, and generally left projecting, as a tent - peg, used in fastening a tent to the ground, or a vent - peg, used to stop the vent of a cask. 4359