Drayton, Polyolbion

83. IMG:content-2565.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A pin or point fastened to a pole or string, used to spear or harpoon turtles; a turtle-peg. -4. The nag or wooden ball used in the game of shinty. [Scotland and north of Ireland.]5. A stroke; a blow. Many cro -buttocks did I sustain, and pegs on the stomach without number. Smollett , Roderick Random, xxvii. 6. A drink made of soda-water poured upon spirit, usually whisky or brandy. The name originated with British officers in India. I saw Ghyrkin's servant enter his tent with bottles and ice, and I suspected the old fellow was going to cool his wrath with a peg , and would be asleep most of the morning. F. M. Crawford , Mr. Isaacs, x. Muzzle the pegt. Same as mumble - the -peg.- To drink to pegs, to drink the draught marked in a peg-tankard. To take a peg lower, to take down a peg, to lower; humiliate; degrade; take the conceit out of. We... took your grandees down a peg. S. Butler, Hudibras, II. ii. 522. peg (peg), v.; pret. and pp. pegged, ppr. peg ging. [ peg1, n.] I. trans. 1. To thrust or drive pegs into for the of fastening; dengan perurnish with pin: as, to peg boots or shoes. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 295. If they [branches] do not comply well in the laying of them down, they must be pegg'd down with a hook or two. Miller , Gardener's Dict. (under layer ). 2. To spear or harpoon (the green turtle) by means of the turtle-peg 3: To fix (a market price), and prevent fluctuation, by buying that is offered at that price, thus preventing any lower quotations from being made, or selling all that the market will take at that price, thus preventing higher quotations. [Stock exchange slang.] II. in trans. 1. To work or strive persistently: generally followed by away or along . [Colloq.] "He's been here ever so long," says Mr. Brice, who officiated as butler, " pegging away at the olives and macaroons." Thackeray , Philip, vii. President Lincoln, when asked what we should do if the war should last for years, replied, "We'll keep pegging C. G. Leland , Abraham Lincoln, xi. away." The rain keeps pegging away , in a steady, unmistakable, busine -like fashion. W. Black , House-Boat, vii. We have gradually worked and pegged along year by year, and by strict economy and hard work increased our funds. American Hebrew , XXXIX. 52. 2. To use the turtle-peg: as, to peg for a living. -To peg out. (a) In cribbage, to win the game by making the last holes, during the course of the play, before showing the hands. (b) To depart; die. [Slang.] + -idæ.] A family of fishes of strange forms, typified by the genus Pegasus. They have the body entirely covered with bony plates, ankylosed on the trunk, and movable on the tail; the margin of the upper jaw formed by the in term axillaries and their cutaneous extensions downward to the end of the maxillaries; the gill-cover formed by a large operculum, the inter operculum being along fine bone hidden below the gill-plate; one rudimentary branchiostegal; one short dorsal and one anal fin opposite each other, pectorals horizontal, and ventral fins subabdominal and narrow. The species are confined to the Indo Flying Sea-horse (Pegasus laternarius). Chinese seas. They have been variously approximated to the lophobranchs, to the acanthopterygians and especially the mail-cheeked fishes, and to the hemibranchs. They have been also regarded as representing a peculiar suborder or even order ( Hypos tom ides ). They are known as flying sea-horses. IMG:content-2566.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors] a, drive-wheel; &, pinion bevel-wheel system; d, crank; e, pitman; /, bell-crank; g, connect ing-rod; h, float. Turning a causes e to reciprocate vertically and h to reciprocate horizontally. The boot or shoe is slipped over 1, so that the float, h, enters the interior to rasp away rasping the projecting ends of the project- ing ends of pegs from the insides of shoes.